Hello Themers,
I need to update the screen shots here: https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=theme_essential - but wondered if you have some superb examples of the theme in action that I could use instead? If so, please could you post them here or if they are too big, upload them to: https://github.com/gjb2048/moodle-theme_essential/issues/337.
In the master branch I have just improved the local font serving mechanism by allowing lots of font types to be uploaded: https://github.com/gjb2048/moodle-theme_essential/issues/327 - this will give you a new 'Font' setting page.
Additionally I have been thinking a lot about the carousel (slider) - https://github.com/gjb2048/moodle-theme_essential/issues/336 - I have been getting loads and loads of questions / queries over the previous months about it. Yes, the old cslider (http://tympanus.net/codrops/2012/03/15/parallax-content-slider-with-css3-and-jquery/) was removed - https://github.com/gjb2048/moodle-theme_essential/issues/61 - because of licence issues and indeed bugs in the code. But I revisited it today and it still is a rather good slider from a looks point of view. I've spent many hours searching the web for other open source alternatives, but none really match up to what was achieved there.
So, I have a plan, some might say 'cunning', others might append the word 'weasel' and others might just say 'a plan?', and that plan is to take what is GPLv3 already and improve it using the techniques openly described in the cslider article and elsewhere. But, do you have skills that you could apply to this task (issue #336 above)? Could you make a fork of the theme and add in some superb CSS and improve the look and feel? Would you be willing to port the Shoehorn BS3 implementation of the code (https://github.com/gjb2048/moodle-theme_shoehorn/blob/master/layout/tiles/frontpageslider.php) before I do? Is there something even better out there which would be a replacement? If so, then please do fork / pull request or just put the code here / on the issue.
Cheers,
Gareth