Admin colorpack idea

[Christian Mohn (h0bbel)]

Hi, all.

I don't want to start a big discussion regarding the colors of the
Monolith/Admin section, but I do have an idea which might please
everyone.

Could we have a colorpack system, that would allow admins to override
the default colors? The thought is that we can create a user/admin/
colorpack.css file that would be applied if present. This way we could
have different color preferences without having to touch the core
admin css files. Customization would be very easy, especially if we
have documented the color settings on the wiki?

bad idea or not?

[Michael Heilemann]

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Christian Mohn (h0bbel) <h0b...@gmail.com> wrote:

I don't want to start a big discussion regarding the colors of the
Monolith/Admin section, but I do have an idea which might please
everyone.

I had an idea for a plugin that would allow you to easily and elegantly change the color scheme in the admin way back when we first started talking about the admin. But I never mocked it up. Very basic stuff, accessible by all.

--
Michael Heilemann
http://binarybonsai.com

[Michael C. Harris]

On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 11:31:21AM +0200, Michael Heilemann wrote:

> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Christian Mohn (h0bbel) wrote:
>
> > I don't want to start a big discussion regarding the colors of the
> > Monolith/Admin section, but I do have an idea which might please
> > everyone.
>
> I had an idea for a plugin that would allow you to easily and elegantly
> change the color scheme in the admin way back when we first started
> talking about the admin. But I never mocked it up. Very basic stuff,
> accessible by all.

That sounds like a great idea. If you get a chance to sketch out your
idea some more, I'm sure there would be people to lend a hand with
implementation. I'll certainly help if I can.

--
Michael C. Harris, School of CS&IT, RMIT University
http://twofishcreative.com/michael/blog

[Christian Mohn (h0bbel)]

A plugin could probably do what I'm suggesting too. I thought it might
be even easier to just have a template css file you place in user/
admin/ and have it override the standard admin.css?

On May 7, 12:28 pm, "Michael C. Harris" <michael.twof...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Graham Christensen]

IMO, using a plugin would result in much nicer code. It could even ship
standard.

Graham Christensen

http://itrebal.com - Customized Web Hosting
Graham.Ch...@iamgraham.net

[Christian Mohn (h0bbel)]

Sure. Either way is fine with me, I just want the option somehow. :)

On May 7, 1:49 pm, Graham Christensen

<graham.christen...@iamgraham.net> wrote:
> IMO, using a plugin would result in much nicer code. It could even ship
> standard.
>
> Graham Christensen
>
> http://itrebal.com- Customized Web Hosting

> Graham.Christen...@iamgraham.net

[Ali B.]

Love the idea and +1 for it being a plugin :)

--
Ali B / dmondark
http://www.awhitebox.com

[Christian Mohn]

Ok, plugin it is. I wonder how hard it would be to make. ;)

 

Christian

[Graham Christensen]

Not hard at all, only took a few minutes...
http://trac.habariproject.org/habari-extras/browser/plugins/FreeStyleAdmin

Graham Christensen

http://itrebal.com - Customized Web Hosting
Graham.Ch...@iamgraham.net

Christian Mohn wrote:
>
> Ok, plugin it is. I wonder how hard it would be to make. ;)
>
>
>
> Christian
>
>
>

> *From:* habar...@googlegroups.com
> [mailto:habar...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Ali B.
> *Sent:* 7. mai 2008 16:45
> *To:* habar...@googlegroups.com
> *Subject:* [habari-dev] Re: Admin colorpack idea

>
>
>
> Love the idea and +1 for it being a plugin :)
>
> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Christian Mohn (h0bbel)
> <h0b...@gmail.com <mailto:h0b...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
> Sure. Either way is fine with me, I just want the option somehow. :)
>
> On May 7, 1:49 pm, Graham Christensen
>
> <graham.christen...@iamgraham.net

> <mailto:graham.christen...@iamgraham.net>> wrote:
> > IMO, using a plugin would result in much nicer code. It could even ship
> > standard.
> >
> > Graham Christensen
> >
> > http://itrebal.com- Customized Web Hosting
>
> > Graham.Christen...@iamgraham.net

> <mailto:Graham.Christen...@iamgraham.net>

>
> >
> > Christian Mohn (h0bbel) wrote:
> > > A plugin could probably do what I'm suggesting too. I thought it might
> > > be even easier to just have a template css file you place in user/
> > > admin/ and have it override the standard admin.css?
> >
> > > On May 7, 12:28 pm, "Michael C. Harris" <michael.twof...@gmail.com

> <mailto:michael.twof...@gmail.com>>

[Chris J. Davis]

Nice job, and quick too.

I get this error:

Fatal error: Can't use function return value in write context in /
home/.garfunkle/saintthom/chrisjdavis.org/system/classes/utils.php
(705) : eval()'d code on line 45

When trying to load the plugin screen to activate the plugin( it is
not yet active)

Chris

[Christian Mohn]

Worked flawlessly for me here :)

Christian

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