Added a comment

[git.ikiwiki.info.git] / doc / todo / themes_should_ship_with_templates.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/todo/themes_should_ship_with_templates.mdwn b/doc/todo/themes_should_ship_with_templates.mdwn
index 4f47262af4c25e2381d48936e3aaeeb189827b7a..875e5ce896cc5e2357701f0840bd7537b0464b30 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/todo/themes_should_ship_with_templates.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/themes_should_ship_with_templates.mdwn
@@ -1,7 +1,19 @@
 if i understand [[todo/multiple_template_directories]] correctly, i read it as templates directories being separate from themes. shouldn't a themer be able to ship more than just a CSS and instead override the (say) page.tmpl page? -- [[anarcat]]
 
 > A theme can ship any files it wants to, including templates (in the
 if i understand [[todo/multiple_template_directories]] correctly, i read it as templates directories being separate from themes. shouldn't a themer be able to ship more than just a CSS and instead override the (say) page.tmpl page? -- [[anarcat]]
 
 > A theme can ship any files it wants to, including templates (in the

-> template/ directory).
+> templates/ directory).

 > 
 > So far none of them do; I'd much rather have one version of page.tmpl to
 > maintain than one per theme.. --[[Joey]]
 > 
 > So far none of them do; I'd much rather have one version of page.tmpl to
 > maintain than one per theme.. --[[Joey]]

+
+> > that, dear author, is amazingly simple, intuitive and useful. why didn't i try this before! :) thank you very much!
+> > 
+> > i do agree that having a completely different template file is tricky, but I think it's important for themes to be able to modify those files, otherwise making themes is *really* hard. besides the burden of maintenance falls on the theme maintainer, and as long as it's not in ikiwiki core, you have nothing to worry about... right? ;)
+> > 
+> > i have just ported the [night_city theme](http://www.openwebdesign.org/viewdesign.phtml?id=3318) to ikiwiki, and it was a nightmare when i wasn't modifying the page.tmpl... but now it's done! i'll try to publish my changes somewhere when i finish figuring out how to share small things like that easily. ;) ([[suggestions|submodule_support]]?)
+> > 
+> > i guess the only thing to be done here is to update the documentation so that this is clearer - where do you suggest I do that? --[[anarcat]]
+> > 
+> > > i have updated the [[plugins/theme]] documentation, hopefully that was the right place. so i think this is [[done]] --[[anarcat]]
+
+>>>> I would love it it you would share your theme!  Thanks, Adam. :-)