Tiki Design

(I haven't got time to figure out the -tags. '>' hand-inserted ...)

Gary wrote:
>Mike wrote:
>>The old css-files were almost unreadable, and the new ones are worse.
>Have you looked at the CSS files for the Kubrick and Planetfall themes?
>I tried to organize them more coherently and add more useful comments.

No, I am very sorry, I hadn't realize that I could be misunderstood in this way. I wasn't referring to any specific css-files, by "new" css-files I certainly didn't mean Kubrick or Planetfall, I haven't examined them. I was describing in general terms the process of producing a theme which IMO leads to confusion, and I think we can agree on that.

Are you saying, that if I want to create a new theme from scratch, I might be better off by starting out from Kubrick rather than from neat? (And Zuka, likey, likey much, can't wait to see it finished.)

>topic at this themes site. Please make a wiki page here to present your
>ideas, if you like.

Could be, could be. marclaporte also has some interesting suggestions in another thread. I agree with all of the following:

>One problem with Tiki CSS in the past is that, it seems, the different
>features have been created by different people, and each just adds his/her
>CSS selectors when writing the tpl files. This way we've gotten long lists
>of very specific selectors instead of few selectors covering many instances.
>At some point, there needs to be a CSS simplification process where the
>template files and CSS files are re-examined and rewritten. But this will
>cause all old styles and users' custom templates to be incompatible, so
>will have to be coordinated well with users and developers.