Mutant Banjo (Beta) for Moodle 2.5 released.

Mutant Banjo (Beta) for Moodle 2.5 released.

by Gareth J Barnard -
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Hi all,

After much deliberation I've decided to release the Mutant Banjo theme to the community.  It's a Bootstrap based theme that incorporates a graphical mechanism upon which to 'swiftly and with style' change the look of the theme through setting of the colour scheme, heading and body font.

A demonstration of the version that illustrates this (before the separation of the font setting) can be seen here:

Today I added the ability to set the heading and body font separately along with the inclusion of three more fonts.  It's up to date with recent Bootstrapbase 'LESS' changes and I've tweaked some of the colours.

I'll be adding it to the plugin's DB but in the mean time you will find the code on:

https://github.com/gjb2048/moodle-theme_mutant_banjo

And the first tagged version on:

https://github.com/gjb2048/moodle-theme_mutant_banjo/releases

Please carefully read the 'Readme.md' file for usage, license and 'Known issues'.  I believe the admin slider technology is unique, so if you do 'borrow it' then I would appreciate a link back to my web and Moodle profiles.

I cannot stress enough that this is BETA software and must NOT be used on production servers.  To get my confidence that this is stable code I need your feedback.

Cheers,

Gareth

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Re: Mutant Banjo (Beta) for Moodle 2.5 released.

by Gareth J Barnard -
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Re: Mutant Banjo (Beta) for Moodle 2.5 released.

by Mary Evans -
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Thank you Gareth, that is very generous of you, and I trust people will kindly ad-hear to your request, and quite rightly so.

I have just this moment downloaded the tar.gz version of the file... cheers!

and will test it later...

Cheers

Mary

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Re: Mutant Banjo (Beta) for Moodle 2.5 released.

by Gareth J Barnard -
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Hi all,

I'm in the process of asking Anthony Borrow to approve the theme here: https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=theme_mutant_banjo.  He's raised an interesting point about licensing as there is the SIL OFL and BSD 3-clause licenses used.  However I've checked and with the evidence I have are compatible with GPLv3 - I hope that he'll be happy with the evidence I've presented.  All of the licenses are still open source though:

http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause

http://opensource.org/licenses/OFL-1.1

Cheers,

Gareth

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Re: Mutant Banjo (Beta) for Moodle 2.5 released.

by Natalie Denmeade -

Looks fantastic.. let's go on a bug hunt and find them all! 

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Re: Mutant Banjo (Beta) for Moodle 2.5 released.

by Julian Ridden -

Great work Gareth.

Thanks for releasing this to the community. I can't wait to delve "under the hood" and see what you have been doing.

Julian

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