Re: [keycloak-dev] initial theme feedback

One idea is that we can create an example theme users can start with. It could be placed in examples/themes and created by copying templates/messages from base + probably a very basic stylesheet. ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bill Burke" <bburke(a)redhat.com&gt; > To: "Stian Thorgersen" <stian(a)redhat.com&gt; > Cc: keycloak-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > Sent: Tuesday, 18 February, 2014 2:44:41 PM > Subject: Re: [keycloak-dev] initial theme feedback > > Eventually, I hope our users will be non-Java developers. Extracting > from source files or jars may be beyond them. Pointing the user to a > git repo to get sample themes is just unacceptable. A user is not going > to know how to create a theme or modify a theme without getting access > to the source. > > Maybe I'll just extract the default theme into a file copy in the > distro. It will be provided as an option in the admin console and > tutorials/docs will point to that template theme folder for users to > play with. > > On 2/17/2014 7:12 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote: >> There is reasoning behind not having the default themes exploded in >> standalone/configuration/themes: >> >> * Default themes should not be modified or deleted >> * You don't need those files unless you're overriding templates. That's an >> "advanced feature", so I believe users that wants to do that can extract >> them from source files or jar without difficulty >> * If you're just styling the current templates, you do not need to refer to >> the files from the default themes >> * I didn't want to always require a theme folder >> * On LiveOak I want the default themes loaded by class-path, and we'll >> probably let users upload custom themes to mongo-fs rather than the >> file-system >> >> That being said, if you really, really want to have these themes in the >> standalone/configuration/themes that's should be possible by copying them >> in there from the jar when building the dist. The "folder provider" now >> has a higher priority than the "classpath provider", so if a theme with >> the same name exists both places it will be loaded from the "folder >> provider". >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Bill Burke" <bburke(a)redhat.com&gt; >>> To: keycloak-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >>> Sent: Friday, 14 February, 2014 11:10:27 PM >>> Subject: [keycloak-dev] initial theme feedback >>> >>> Is it possible to not have the default themes stuffed in a JAR within >>> WEB-INF/lib and instead have them exploded within >>> standalone/configuration/themes? Users should be able to view, modify, >>> and copy them directly instead of having to download the source. >>> >>> Is this just a matter of moving the theme templates out of common-themes >>> and removing DefaultLoginThemeProvider from >>> org.keycloak.freemarker.ThemeProvider file? >>> >>> I can do this work if you're busy with other stuff. Do you need a >>> screecast created too? >>> -- >>> Bill Burke >>> JBoss, a division of Red Hat >>> http://bill.burkecentral.com >>> _______________________________________________ >>> keycloak-dev mailing list >>> keycloak-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >>> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/keycloak-dev >>> > > -- > Bill Burke > JBoss, a division of Red Hat > http://bill.burkecentral.com >