Patrick Malley

Thank you, Anthony. Something that would simplify this even further would be a style selector in README.html, which appears every time a theme is selected. The selector could work by changing config.php (or adding and @import to styles.css) and there would be no need to rename files.

Unfortunately, I'm not a programmer so this work is a bit much for me. But, if anyone is up for the task, this would be a great feature since a lot of the themes I plan on rolling out are going to have 3-5 variants each.

Thank you all for your responses so far. I agree with Frank that documentation on modifying themes should be the focus, and it would be great if that documentation built on top of Stripdown as it encourages users to use the Standard sheets without having to do a whole lot of work to get there.

As part of the 2.0 release, I'm working on finding and creating 20 new themes to include in the Moodle core. It's been mentioned that we ought to also drop the Standard theme variants (Standard Red, Standard Blue, Standard Red, and Standard Logo) as they really don't add much to the Standard theme (approximately 12 lines of CSS in each) and they'd look pretty plain alongside the others we'll be adding.

So, what do we do with these variants?

1.) We could completely get rid of them.

2.) We could put the alternatively colored stylesheets inside Standard as I've done for Nonzero and Ingenuous and let people decide whether or not to use them themselves.

3.) We could leave them as individual themes as they exist now.

- I like the idea of the second option, but it does clutter up the Standard theme beyond it's purpose.

I'm very interested in everyone's feedback on this.

At the bottom of your theme's config.php file, you'll find the following:

///$THEME->rarrow = '►' //OR '→';

Uncomment this bit and change the ► to your preferred symbol. My new favorite site for glyphs is:

http://www.public.asu.edu/~rjansen/glyph_encoding.html

I've posted something similar in response to your question in the Tracker, but I thought I should post it here, too, so it would be viewed by more people. At this point, I'm just trying to get out some general designs for the 2.0 release, but I'm coding them for 1.9 for early testing.

I will code Anomaly, Nonzero, and Ingenuous for 2.0 over the next two weeks and will announce when they're ready for testing on that system.

Please let me of any bugs you find in these early releases here in the forums. When I add the 2.0 themes to HEAD, though, I'd prefer bugs to be reported in the tracker.