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TikiWiki 3.0beta process
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3.0beta
- Help get theme-related items of 3.0beta into shape, toward release 3.0
- Prepare the alternative themes, mostly in svn mods, for 3.0
For item 1, this includes
- Site header details: I want to be sure the Look and Feel options work smoothly in all the themes.
- CSS menu details: these should work properly in general
- Check IE6 and IE7 again. Things have worked in these browsers at one time or another, but need to be rechecked as files change, etc. (And some problems have never been fixed for IE, noteably JavaScript errors.)
- Misc. theme details: check out bug reports, etc. and fix as much as possible.
- Related area: profiles. Check the small business presence profile for further improvement. Be thinking/working on additional profiles and profile methods.
For item 2
- Check again which template files are no longer needed. header.tpl for sure can be removed in all themes except (and these aren't in mods yet) themes that use special css/js for custom corner boxes.
- Buttons need to be styled for release 3. Strasa has a pretty good method that can be used in general.
- Check/add the tabs and css menu styles.
- Check the transitions stylesheet and add what can be added to improve the themes.
- Check for new/strange behavior of themes in 3.0beta. The (missing) menu folder icons in Planetfall are one thing I noticed so far.
- Run the theme stylesheets through the validator and eliminate errors.
- Where appropriate, make use of the new theme options. Logical candidates include LiteJazz (which already has gray, green, and red flavors) and Andreas09 (which already has several color variants).
- Make (or adapt, since most already exist) thumbnails and add to the themes' style directories, for the new L&F theme selection preview feature.
Longer term, these are areas I want to work on:
- Profiles - improve existing and add new fully functional profiles.
- English strings in interface need to be improved. I'll be editing the dev.tw.o page for these, to work with J-M's string replacement script.
- Additional themes - I have many that are fairly far along, and can be ready for distribution probably during the period from Tiki 3 to Tiki 4 releases.
- Revamp CSS organization - as discussed with Nyloth and with other ideas, have a layout.css that contains most selectors and properties for positioning and so on, that's imported by the theme stylesheet, which adds just the coloring and other style details unique to the theme, along with any layout.css overrides. This arrangement should enable a theme author to more easily create a new theme or modify an existing one.
