am about to start using the Lullabot Videola profile which has a Omega 6 sub-theme as its default

I asked Lullabot the question: should I sub-theme their sub-theme?
https://github.com/Lullabot/videola/issues/10

ideally I'd like to sub-theme the sub-theme - for upgrade purposes ...

any thoughts from the Omega community would be most welcome

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niccolox’s picture

have been told by a lullabot that sub-theming the sub-theme has been done before... will try that, but any pointers most welcome

niccolox’s picture

tried the textbook procedure for sub-theming a theme and got errors
http://omega.developmentgeeks.com/documentation/subthemes/creating-omega...

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare videola_omega_theme() (previously declared in /home/quickstart/websites/videola.dev/profiles/videola/themes/videola_omega/template.php:22) in /home/quickstart/websites/videola.dev/profiles/videola/themes/videola_omega_new/template.php on line 30 Call Stack: 0.0045 653168 1.

do the theme-settings.php and template.php need additional logic to chain sub-theme sub-themes?

in short, can Omega do this ? http://drupal.org/node/225125

niccolox’s picture

encountered errors, and logged on videola's github queue

I can see a simple, light-weight way to do it by adding extra style sheets that override the sub-theme

but making a full chained, sub-theme of a sub-theme of a base theme doesn't look easy to my dull eyes

prabhatjn’s picture

+1

Yuri’s picture

+1

himerus’s picture

In Drupal 6 version of Omega, if you properly create your subtheme(s) it will work... the code in the template.php and theme-settings.php all need to be adjusted accordingly with the appropriate name of the theme you are working with...

As long as that is in place, Omega works fine with sub-sub-sub-sub-themes

niccolox’s picture

not sure if this is relevant to omega

but found this example sub-sub-theme

https://github.com/lelizondo/lighter
https://github.com/lelizondo/resources

need to follow-up on this myself. but for others...

patty.fresonke’s picture

Does anyone know if this type of sub-theming a sub-theme works properly in Drupal 7 version of Omega? (The one referred to here http://drupal.org/node/225125)

mattyohe’s picture

Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

Omega is no different. In fact, when you sub-theme Omega to make your own theme, you are in fact sub-theming a sub-theme! This is because Omega sub-themes alpha.

Unless there are any other questions here...