Please use this forum topic to discuss the 'planet' theme series and make any suggestions for improvements.
The planet themes are a set of ten 2-column themes aimed at providing a range of colour and contrast schemes primarily (but not exclusively) for accessibility.
The first theme in the series, Mercury is under review for inclusion in the themes plugin database - the rest will be made available following the submission process as soon as this is approved.
Regards, Gordon.
All 10 'Planet' themes for 2.4 are now available to download via Github or the Plugins area on Moodle.org - https://moodle.org/plugins/search.php?s=%27Planet%27
As they were primarily designed with visual impairment and dyslexia in mind these themes are intended to be used as a set to provide individual choice, but some are suitable to use as standalone site themes.
Hi,
Thanks.
I've already installed Mercury and started testnings things on it= meddling w/ it.
Could be good if there's Theme Settings page or other Planet themes should do?
Sue
Dear Gordon,
Do all the themes in the series have the same underlying structure and its only the css colour scheme that changes?
Cheers,
Gareth
Hi,
I've changed the backgroud colour and discovered that Block settings icons show up when the cursor's over the place where the settings icons are...
When the cursor's off the place,
When the cursor's over the place,
Q: is it supposed to be like this???
Hi Sue,
Try adding this to either the core.css (if it exists or another css file will do) or to the settings page CSS if it exists...
.block .header .commands .icon img {
background-color: #F3F8ED; /* adds light green background */
border: 2px solid #3B4C25; /* adds 2px dark green border */
border-radius: 5px; /* adds rounded corners in modern browsers */
height: 12px;
margin-right: 3px;
padding: 2px; /* adds padding to icon */
width: 12px;
}
This adds color/padding to the icons.
The reason you cannot see the icons is becouse they are grey where once they were coloured icon images.
Cheers
Mary
Hi, Mary.
Still the same. I need to put the cursor over the place to see the icons.
Before
After
Hi Sue, the summary in the plugins database says they use the autohide function for the editing buttons so I think this is the expected behaviour
Hi,
Ah, now I know what autohide means in this theme.
I've removed it and all the settings icons showed up.
Hi Richard,
Thanks for confirming with Sue about the autohide - the intended behaviour is that icons only show up when you actively rollover an editable activity, so it reduces visual clutter on a page when someone is editing.
I've only looked at the first 5 Gareth, but yes that appears to be the case
Thanks Richard
Gordon, I wonder if it is worth implementing some sort of css switcher and reducing ten themes down to one and then have the user choose the css set to use. This is because in my experience, creating something is far less time consuming than maintaining something. This is why I stopped developing the Collapsed Weeks course format and placed all of the functionality within Collapsed Topics despite the effort.
Cheers,
Gareth
I guess that would work in the same way as the switcher in Splash and call the appropriate colour scheme css file in the same way.
Just to add - next bit of work on this is to switch theme without leaving the current page, and save selected theme to the user profile preference. I used navigation dropdown menu for this originally but as you can't script theme changes in Moodle 2 menu (unlike 1.9) it defaults to the home page every time you change theme.
I should have this sorted by the time I rollout a 2.5 version of the theme.
Regards, Gordon.
Hi Gareth,
Yes - I did consider having a single theme that could be switched, but didn't quite get around to it for this version. Hopefully I'll have a chance to update this for 2.5 later in the summer and will implement a switcher version then.
Regards, Gordon.
Please note that you will need to replace the URL in the line <a class="logo" title="Home" href="http://inspire.rcs.ac.uk/"> with the correct url for the homepage of your own Moodle site. This line of code can be found in three places:
layout\frontpage.php (line 52)
layout\general.php (line 53)
layout\report.php (line 44)
Regards, Gordon.
If you correct it in the themes to use the $cfg->wwwroot value then it wouldn't need editing for each individual install, it would just pick it up from the site
e.g. from afterburner
<a class="logo" href="<?php echo $CFG->wwwroot; ?>" title="<?php print_string('home'); ?>"></a>
Richard
Richard,
Thanks - it was originally built as an institutional theme and I'd forgotten the link was hard coded until someone asked. I'll update with the suggested change in the next couple of days and post the revised version on github and Moodle plugins.
Much appreciated, Gordon.
The planet series have now been updated to version 1.1
https://moodle.org/plugins/search.php?s=planet
Amended hardcoded home url to reference site home instead Added css for making table internal lines visible as per Moodle Tracker issue MDL-27774 Updated css to make editing buttons on blocks more visible
Can I use the current version with Moodle 2.5? If not, when do you expect to have an updated version available?
Hi, If a theme works on 2.4, then it will work in 2.5.
Thanks
Mary
Hi,
Just to say I've updated the Earth theme from the planet series and tested with Moodle 2.6 and 2.7.
The required change was very minor (it only affected one of the links on the Moodlebar), and I'll update the other themes as soon as I have a chance over the summer. More time permitting I'll completely rewrite this as a single theme which can switch between the different colour schemes in the series, but this summer already has a heavy workload (don't they all).
Regards, Gordon.
That would be great...but do find time to enjoy the summer!
Take care
Mary
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