By Bèr Kessels on
Today I spent some time on themes.drupal.org. I upgraded it to the 4.7 branch, skinned the Drupal installation completely and removed some lesser used features. This means we now have all the latest themes available again.
As you may notice, I removed the themeswitcher interface. It was not a very popular feature, the list was too long to be very useful and -most important- we want to move the theme-selecting back to Drupal.org.
Volunteers wanted!
- Make sure you report any broken (file under Drupal.org maintainance) themes you encounter. Not all themes can be used on the theme garden, if I overlooked one, please tell me, so that I can remove it.
- Keep an eye out for new themes. All themes need to be checked for security issues before they can be installed. Please file an issue (file under Drupal.org maintainance) when you think a theme is ready to go to the theme garden
- A better browsing interface. I would love something that does not use native Drupal blocks, but uses something like the frames in the wordpress theme browser. If you have spare time, here is your project!
- Theme maintainers should read the handbook page on how to get your theme entry linked to the themes.drupal.org example.
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Not all themes work
Some just don't have the "browse themes" block. Kinda makes it hard to waste time efficiently. ;)
That is one thing indeed
It is because not all themes have the same / correct regions defined. A lot of themes /do/ have teh regions defined bu don't print them.
Could you provide a list of theems you found broken?
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How about a listing page?
why not have a page that lists all the available themes? Is that complicated?
James Walker :: Bryght Guy
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That would be nice
I played around with it for a bit but, even if all themes supported it, navigating by esentially "back and next" links it a pain. I'd like to see a page with all the themes and small thumbnail and clicking on any one changes the theme of the site to that. Under the theme name, you could put whether that theme is available for download and a link to the Drupal download page for it.
That's my $0.02 on what would make the site super useful for me. :)
Michelle
ripped it
... because it was heavy. Very heavy. I suspect it was the part that crashed the server on drupal2 in fact.
But yes, that is what we need. Feel free to donate time :)
Even a screenshot would be cool.
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Themes without left sidebar
Well, I can at least give some:
(It would be easier to go through them all if one didn't have to rely on navigating by the "random" block, or a block which not all styles support...)
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Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen
B7 and Wireframe = a bug in the software
The first and the last theme don't get a block. I need o find out why. all the others seem to have abug. I'll investigate them and remove if it cannot be fixed.
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Bravo Bèr
Bèr,
Thanks much for updating this. I've been looking for something like this for 4.7 themes for months.
One suggestion: can we put something in to "rate" the themes, to make it easier to sort the themes by quality? This would not only make it easier and quicker to flag broken themes (and potentially gather User Agent info at the same time for better bug reporting), it would also be a place for people to rate by esthetics, by quality of code, standards compliance, etc.
This would help many of us who are not theme wizards, but need to get better at doing it.
Rob Thorne
Torenware Networks
http://www.torenware.com
Rob Thorne
Torenware Networks
Is it just the version of IE
Is it just the version of IE that I'm using right now (not my choice - public internet access station) that makes the themes site look bad? I am seeing images in the wrong place and an overall bad look. I'm currently using IE IE6 XPSP2
I confirm : the page is
I confirm : the page is completly in a wrong order with IE, but it is OK with Firefox.
Thanks.
The main theme "garden" is indeed broken in IE. I will have a look at it, but if someone beats me to it, I'd be happy :)
The issue for this particular problem is found here http://drupal.org/node/79557, let us continue discussion aboiu the bugs there. If someone can submit a screenshot there, it would be a great help.
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Link to ThemeSwitcher
Perhaps you want to disable the link to the ThemeSwitcher on http://themes.drupal.org/ , under the words "in action"?
In the meantime, while in ThemeGarden
were no growing plants ;) I installed the http://theme.drupaler.net/. Since it doesn't make sense to do one job twice, I'm willing to join the ThemeGarden development.
I addition to ThemeGarden the site above has some features like:
- Tagging the themes according to their layout and validation
- Each theme has a own node with description
- Each theme has an own virtual host
- Voting for themes
- Direct download link to used theme (mirrored)
ThemeGarden has additional:
- Randomizing Themes
We may talk about sharing the code and ideas at DrupalCon 2006 Brusssels (if you want).
Thomas Narres
Keep the sunny side up
Thomas Narres
Keep the sunny side up
Great Job! (but it doesn't work for me)
I use IE 6.0 and "browse themes" doesn't work... Is it my firewall?
I think thumbnails, and some sort of order... lists ... "taxonomies" ... according to looks and purposes are necessary to make Theme Garden useful.
Why not include some ready-made Drupal implementations, like a basic information distribution version, a basic blog, a basic community website, a simple e-commerce website? Why offer a choice of looks and not also a choice of functions? It would save thousands of people hundreds of hours of identical work. Isn't that what Drupal was made for?
And please give the basic themes a feature which lets you easily change fonts and colors.
Thanks and love
Martin
homepage and website of the gay swiss
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