Moodle Plugins directory: Cubic | Moodle.org
Cubic
Bruno SampaioThis theme is a base theme for Moodle, which introduces some new concepts and which takes advantage of some new technologies like HTML5 and CSS3.
On the top of every Moodle page, this theme introduces a user bar which provides users with several menus. Each of these menus contain information about the current user courses, activities, notifications, events, messages, settings, and others.
Besides that, this theme is related to two new Moodle local plugins, which introduce the Institutions (https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=local_institutions) and the Applications (https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=local_applications) concepts in Moodle. On the user bar a menu for each of those concepts is displayed. Those menus allow the users to access institutional or applications web pages, respectively. Both the institutions and the applications pages can be accessed without leaving Moodle.
Furthermore, this theme is also related to a new Moodle block plugin that introduces a chat service for Moodle that is available for everyone, a bit like Google Chat or Facebook Chat (https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=block_gchat).
Since the user bar contains a lot of useful information, the blocks are no longer required in some contexts. For example, when embedding a page, Cubic uses all horizontal and vertical space leaving only the user bar in the top.
Finally, this theme also provides a settings page where you can change several properties like logos, colors, system name, and others. On this page you can also remove the institutions and applications menus from the user bar in case you don't want to use them.
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Contributors
Thank you for all your feedback. I already created a repository on Github for this theme (https://github.com/Anakin88/moodle-theme_cubic) and I removed all the code related to the other plugins from the theme/cubic/db folder.
Tell me what you think about this version and in case you think it is ready I will add it here.
On the following weeks I'll try to convert the applications and institutions to local plugins.
./lang/en/theme_cubic.php:
to reference the screenshot.png file you are using.
Unless you make the institutions and applications local plugins dependencies, I might encourage you to see the default values for show_institutions and show_applications to No rather than Yes. None of these issues are in my opinion anything overly significant and I will let you decide what you think is best. I am going to go ahead and approve this theme and look forward to seeing your other contributions as you are able. Please do not hesitate to let me know if there is anything I can do to be supportive of your efforts. Peace - Anthony
When I try installing the cubic theme (after installing the 2 plugins and 2 blocks) i receive a batch of text when i try to click on "Change theme" (moodle 2.3) i receive the following message :/
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9395241/code_cubic.txt
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated
I never got this error :s
- This only happens when you try to change to Cubic theme?
- Other themes don't give you this problem?
- The theme changed or does it remained the same?
- Have you installed any other plugins besides the ones on this set?
Sorry for the questions but I want to understand exactly what happened so I can try to generate and understand this error.
1. this happens when I click on "Change theme" even before i select the cubic theme.
2. that's correct! (just tried installing a new theme and clicking the "change theme" button doesn't give throw this error...
3. It breaks the whole site when i apply it... (break, same kind of source code showing even when i go to the front page of the moodle site).. the only way to fix it is to remove the cubic folder from the themes folder..
4. No, only the 4 plugins... 2 inside local and 2 inside blocks
It's abit confusing... the version of moodle we're using is 2.3.6
thanks for your help
I'll try the one you just uploaded now and report back
Thanks!!!