- "New" Plone theming has arrived
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Fri 27 May 2011
By aclark
In Blog . tags: Plone
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Unexpected indentation.Edit2: Enfold/Ploud.net looking for theme developers, see Alan
- Runyan's comment below.
- Edit : Laurence Rowe made new Diazo and plone.app.theming releases so
- the zip file now works! Thanks Laurence.
- Due to the new Diazo theming features now available, I am very excited
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(released) http://pypi.python.org/pypi/plonetheme.unilluminated/0.1.0 (unreleased) https://github.com/aclark4life/plonetheme.coolblue
Granted, these aren't entirely "finished" (e.g. lots of CSS improvements
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Unexpected indentation.The best part has got to be the zip file packaging features in
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Suprise! I like it What I am most surprised about is how much I like this approach:
Developers can easily distribute themes in Python packages, and pay a
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- They can also optionally choose to distribute Diazo themes as zip
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Unexpected indentation.If I am not mistaken the contents of a zipped theme can be loaded quite elegantly , without changing their contents, via a Python
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So, let us now commence the spamming of PyPI and the Plone.org
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Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.downloads section with "fun" easy-to-install (read: no buildout) Plone themes! [2]
Disclaimer These are my experiences with relatively new Plone technologies. If I've
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Unexpected indentation.[1] Please forgive gratuitous belated rapture humor. [2] Before you get upset over any suggested spamming, I only mean to
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Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.suggest that the ability to distribute a theme as a zip file lowers the bar to Plone adoption tremendously. Personally (and tentatively, since I'm not even sure if everything is meant to work the way I currently expect it to), I plan to include a zipped archive of any theme I distribute as a Python package because it is so easy to do so (or hopefully will be very soon). But how the community chooses to capitalize on this new-found ability remains to be seen.
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