Moodle plugins directory: Campus

Hi Saad,

Thank you for your kind words.

To be honest I've never made a child theme of Campus, so cannot technically say either way. In theory it should be possible for the child theme to call the parents functions / methods for LESS generation.

Kind regards,

Gareth

Thanks A lot for this prompt response - Gareth - I wasn't really expecting a reply so soon.

The only problem i see while creating child theme is that the function being used for generating less is dependent on settings of the theme. And if i replicate settings on my theme , than i am estimating that it will loose the purpose of inheriting the parent theme ( Campus ) . I mean an update to Campus theme might break many things on child theme. Any comments on it ?

i think i have to look into it further to see other possibilities.

Thanks Once Again !!

Hi Gareth!

I wanted to discuss about a potential bug in the campus theme. I have implemented the child theme, it has minimal code at this point . I have uploaded it here https://www.dropbox.com/s/m9hkoxh9syqo14a/eikesfk.rar?dl=0 .

The less part of the child theme was being broken due to some errors. I tried fixing it by changing things on child theme. But then after spending lot of hours. I ended up changing few reference in parent theme and the child theme less got fixed.

In Campus theme lib.php in theme_campus_extra_less .

I changed this

$content = '@import "'.$CFG->dirroot.'/theme/bootstrapbase/less/moodle";';
$content .= '@import "variables-campus";';
$content .= '@import "bootstrapchanges";';
$content .= '@import "moodlechanges";';
$content .= '@import "campuschanges";';
$content .= '@import "campuscustom";';

to this

$content = '@import "'.$CFG->dirroot.'/theme/bootstrapbase/less/moodle";';
$content .= '@import "'.$CFG->dirroot.'/theme/campus/less/variables-campus";';
$content .= '@import "'.$CFG->dirroot.'/theme/campus/less/bootstrapchanges";';
$content .= '@import "'.$CFG->dirroot.'/theme/campus/less/moodlechanges";';
$content .= '@import "'.$CFG->dirroot.'/theme/campus/less/campuschanges";';
$content .= '@import "'.$CFG->dirroot.'/theme/campus/less/campuscustom";';

And the child theme worked. Though im still feeling guilty on changing the parent theme But this is how i got the less compiler working of child theme.

Thanks,
Saad

Hi Saad,

I see. Not a bug because of $CFG->themedir.

Cheers,

Gareth

Gareth,

Sorry, I couldnt get your comment.

Sorry for bothering you too much, i ve just spend so much time on it , it on my dreams can you please advice me, if there is a way i can make the less of child theme work without changing anything in parent theme. Just dont want the updates to break the site.

Hi Saad,

Please look at how settings.php works in regards to the implications of $CFG->themedir. I don't think at the moment you can make a child theme work without changing the parent theme unless I make changes to support thereof. This may happen in the future.

Kind regards,

Gareth

Thanks Gareth! For your support and this amazing theme.

Though i couldnt exact get what aspect of childtheme are you linking with themedir as i havent inherited settings.php. Anyways nevermind.
Ill read again about it and see to it.

Hi Saad,

Its not about settings.php precisely but what it does with $CFG->themedir / how it copes with it, hint hint.

Kind regards,

Gareth

Greetings David & Gareth,
Campus really is a great theme. We've done some testing and it's something we're considering as we upgrade to Moodle 3.2 this summer. We're wondering if you've had conversations about supporting docked blocks. I've scanned the comments here and don't see any mention of it. It's a feature our faculty like a lot.
Thanks for the great work,
Ryan

Hi Ryan,

Docking is something that we don't want on Campus, however I'd be happy to provide a modified version of the theme for a fee. I think it would take about 2 hours to half a day of my time.

Kind regards,

Gareth

Hi Gareth (and Ryan)
I use this theme on various Moodles with colleges I work with. As far as I can see it is the only one to provide category sub-themes which is a brilliant feature. I would certainly be happy to pay to see an updated version of this theme to include docking. I would also like to see if there was a simple way to offer alternative colours for the various symbols. Gareth, are you talking here about producing a version of theme that would be available to everyone as a standard theme? This would be my preferred option as it would allow others to benefit. Ryan, would you or anyone else be open to sharing the costs?
Ken

Hi Ken,

Campus does not provide category sub-themes. There are only category headers within the same theme. Docking solution is currently under investigation. What do you mean by alternative colours for symbols please?

Gareth

Hi there Gareth,

Any chance we'll be seeing a 3.3 compatible version of Campus in the future? We're running the theme in our 3.3 staging server, and it's 98% compatible, but there are still a few niggling little issues. However, I'm not sure if it's because of the disparity between the 3.1 theme and the 3.3 server.

Thanks!

Hi Paul,

Yes there is a chance.

Kind regards,

Gareth

Hi Paul,

just change the height of your images used in the header. Make sure combined they equal max width of the theme and have the same height. Reducing the height will of both will do the trick.

Kind regards
David