id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component resolution keywords cc repo theme 1380 Making customizing CSS easier zephod zephod "While integrating the new theme and making a large number of UX tweaks, I've allowed the CSS file to bloat out of control with some very specific rules and subtle hacks, as well as a couple of clearfix
objects in the markup which isn't really good practice. In general we want a logical CSS structure which is as easy to modify as possible. You should not find yourself being overwritten by highly specific rules all the time! == Actions == 1. Clean up css 2. Add a config option ckan.template_head_end - arbitrary string inserted at end of tag so you can add custom css etc (may also want to update theming docs to reflect possibility of using this) 3. (While we're at it): Add ckan.template_footer_end config option to deployment.ini_template. (This already exists, we just haven't told anybody) 4. The /users index page isn't linked anywhere. Clean it up and link it in the footer next to Groups etc. 5. package/new, package/edit, group/new and group/edit all include their forms differently. Use h.literal in all cases. 6. Fix the padding on minornavigation. == Background == David Read sent me the following as background: V. basic theming is described here: http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/theming.html Deep customisation of the templates is done by creating an extension, with this as a template: https://bitbucket.org/okfn/ckanext-exampletheme/overview That's what Augusto and the Brazilians have done http://alpha.dados.gov.br/dados/ and their code is here: hg clone http://dev.dados.gov.br/codigo/dev/tema-ckan Another thing of interest was us becoming compatible with Wordpress themes last December. Richard Pope worked with Rufus on this. I believe the base theme is 'twentyten' and I'm guessing that one would swap that css file with another to change theme, but I don't know. I don't know if this feature has been dropped since then. http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-dev/2010-December/000073.html Dave" enhancement closed major ckan-sprint-2011-11-07 ckan fixed dread ckan none