[mythtv-theming] Theme inheritance or 'fallback' theme

[Federico Ferri]

In data mercoledì 2 maggio 2012 12:46:25, Chris Pinkham ha scritto:
> I want to get an opinion on whether people see a feature
> as having any value before I investigate it further.
> 
> I've mentioned in IRC several times about an idea I had about
> allowing theme inheritance or the concept of a 'fallback'
> theme that would be used before falling back to default or
> default-wide.
> 
> It's a simple concept so I worked up a patch last night to
> test the theory.  Basically, a theme would be allowed to
> define a <fallbackTheme> tag in themeinfo.xml.  The
> fallbackTheme would be added to the search path before
> the default-wide and default theme directories.  This would
> allow a themer to create variations on a theme by just
> creating a new directory containing at a minimum a themeinfo.xml
> and base.xml.
> 
> This would allow a lot of different scenarios without having to
> duplicate everything in the base theme, here are a couple
> examples:
> 
> - Base 16:9 theme and -narrow 4:3 version
>   - the -narrow version could just redefine .xml and use the
>     images from the base
> - Base theme and -blue, -red, -green variations
>   - the -COLOR versions could just supply some different images
>     or .xml depending on what colors were changing.
> - Base theme and -over40 version
>   - the -over40 version could just have changes to the .xml to
>     use larger font sizes.
> 
> I think this might make it easier for new themers to play with
> things because they only need to override .xml and image files,
> they wouldn't have to start with a full copy of a theme and
> hacking away.
> 
> --
> Chris
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Hi,
i think it's a very good idea!
Themers who wants to get different versions but especially for no-themers who want to customize one...

I did it before start on developing a-forest

Bye,
Federico