As Julian seems to have moved on the pastures new, does anybody know what the support situation is for his Essential and Elegance themes?
I was considering deploying Elegance on a 2.7 upgrade site but I need some assurance the theme will continue to be supported in some manner.
Anybody know?
Missed that... thank you
It is supported but it's not quite the same Elegance now. I installed an updated version and I must say I don't like it( The new coder made some changes that he liked but I switched back to the Julian's one.
Out of interest, what were the changes you did not like Stasia?
I have also remained with Julian's theme for now but am hopeful that Danny or someone else will bring back the features that we like - yes, it was me that asked for the lovely hovering thing(!!!) which does indeed work on mobile in my tests.
My biggest holdup on switching to Danny's version is the drop down list from the name in the top right hand corner. It takes me about 3 or 4 clicks to get it to work. I would actually like it to work with just a hover - I might see if I can implement it myself.
Julian is presenting at the Mountain Moot and I am hoping to corner him and see if we can get a few updates on the theme from him!!
Hello Emma, so it was you!) Wonderful if you can see Julian and tell him his theme is a blessing for Moodle and Moodlers)
I will for sure!!
Oh I hope you do get to corner him Emma...please say hello from me? 
What lovely hover thingy? Am I missing something?
When you are on the My Course page and hover over the Course Icon, the course name zooms in with a nice Enter button. Designed to work with a Course Summary Image file as the icon.
Corner me? You will need a big corner :D
Happy to be cornered. Might even make some quick changes on the fly. But the sad reality is that I don't have the free time I thought I would and that has really limited my ability to maintain. I am so glad to see others however picking it up and letting these projects live on after my departure. They have my full blessing and support!
If anything, I want to encourage those taking over these projects to please fell free to reach out to me. Im happy to help as much as time allows. I don't want to see these projects buried. Just sadly my time is limited.
Julian
Lol - I am currently trying to plan my trip to Montana. Ryan said you would be there the whole week but guessing you might like some time off! Would love a few pointers on some of the code if you have time while you up there. Will supply the beer!
Emma and Julian,
It will be good to meet both of you at the Mountain Moot. I would also enjoy getting some tips from Julian. I'm also up for the beer, but wonder what our theme code might produce after several drinks!
Floyd
I am thinking that between us all, we could create a great theme - maybe called "Ale"gance!
Count me in!!
I've also stuck with Julian's original - not because of Danny's design choices, but because I already built the child theme off that one and I haven't had chance/inclination to update it the way it might need doing now that Danny's version is created as a child theme of Bas' bootstrap3.
If/when Bas' bootstrap3 goes into core then I may change direction, but I like using my own child of the chosen parent theme (often a 3rd party contributed one) and I'm not overly keen on that parent theme then being a child of another 3rd party contributed theme. That is not a slight on any of the excellent developers involved in either of these projects, its just a step to far for me to justify maintainability and upstream continuity with the people I do the work for
I don't really want to take on ongoing development of Julian's Elegance theme as it is however, given Danny's excellent work and the decision not to rename his theme. I understand his reasoning, but to me it blocks further development of the original Elegance theme as we run too much risk of having two parallel themes with the same name. Right now, the development on the original version seems 'frozen' so we can (relatively) easily tell that its the 'original' or the 'Danny' version (with the obvious benefits of Danny's continued support and development work). That said, I'm more than happy to try and do what i can if there are specific bug fixes needed to Julian's original for anyone, like me, who does not yet want to upgrade to Danny's version.
Likewise with Essential - as far as I can see its a relatively stable theme in its current form. I have no plans to develop it further, but I'm happy to try to provide ongoing bug fixes to the best of my ability within the community.
Yes, I noticed if you add slides and then try and just change the number of slides without making your existing slides inactive, they will not go away. You have to go back to the slideshow page, change it back to the original number of slides that you had and then uncheck the Use this Slide checkbox. At least, for the front page slideshow, that worked for me.
Thank you Emma, you're my savior!)
Hi Stasia,
RE: The error I can see is with counting messages. Old messages are still being counted. This was fixed in the new elegance and I tried to implement code for the J.elegance. It worked! But now the new messages are not being counted sometimes
I was the one who created the new message counting code for iMoot 2014 which made its way into Danny's version - https://github.com/gjb2048/moodle-theme_elegance/commit/2f400a32f1f475b1d8611dfb3fc55208dfbf5b93. Is there any more info you can give me about 'not counted sometimes' please? What do you notice?
Cheers,
Gareth
Oh well, there was a little mess with it
First, I did everything what had to be done from instructions on the github. There were some differencies in code and maybe I did something wrong because my Moodle site crashed. So I put back the original version.php file. This brought my site back to life but not for long). So I put back the original elegance-theme.php. This time it worked! Site well and live, old messages are not being counted.
The new messages seem to be counted 'from second try'.
If I send a message, the recipient can't see a new message. If I send a second one, he sees he has one new message (the last I sent).
That's it.
Are you waiting enough time for the cron job to operate between message sending and checking the number of messages?
I get a copy of the message on my email box instantly. I'll check if I messed up something in code.
I like the way that Danny made it a child theme - makes more sense overall and especially if the parent theme becomes part of core.
And, I definitely appreciate Danny taking it on.
I will add my voice that I think at some point, it needs to be renamed or maybe the original needs renamed but it will cause confusion as is. Obviously, it is an amazing theme, hence the huge number of forum discussions about its continuance and upkeep...
I have really just started into the theme adaption area of Moodle (greatly enjoying it for now) but would be happy to help if I can, even it just be with testing. I do not call myself a coder by any means, more of a wannabe!
I haven't made too many updates to my version of elegance 2.7 in a while- and with today being the last day of school I might have more time in the near future.
Most of the concerns listed here are, I believe, legit bugs- I didn't choose to have to click like 4 times to open a menu I just haven't had time to fix it.
I really appreciate feedback on my changes and what's wrong, but even more so I appreciate issues:
https://github.com/thedannywahl/moodle-theme_elegance/issues
To give you an idea of things that might break, here's a short list of where bugs might unknowingly be introduced:
So there is potential for things to break without me changing anything- that's why I appreciate feedback. As to renaming the theme, as I've said before I'm open to in the future IF Julian won't make my version the new official version, and I haven't even asked him yet (See Plugins Adoption Programme)
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=260354
tl;dr: If you like Julian's version, then use it , but I don't think he's coming back...
I think at the end of the day simplicity is the way forward. The simpler a theme is the better it is for all concerned.
No... he posted some pretty definite "goodbye to Moodle" messages so I assumed that we shall not see his like again, and all that
I've just fixed Rocket theme for the same reason since I don't expect Julian has neither the time nor the inclination to start messing with old themes when he is learning new stuff.
I've left the theme name the same, and just added my name using ...
/**
* @package theme_rocket
* @copyright 2011 Julian Ridden
* @revised 2014 Mary Evans {@link bylazydaisy.co.uk}
* @license http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL v3 or later
*/
There are places that I might make some changes in which case I will clone it and make it into Rocket's sister ship Rocketta
