[jbossseam-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Updated: (JBSEAM-671) Add an inheritance mechanism for themes

Add an inheritance mechanism for themes --------------------------------------- Key: JBSEAM-671 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBSEAM-671 Project: JBoss Seam Issue Type: Feature Request Affects Versions: 1.1.0.GA Reporter: Bill Wallace Priority: Minor It would be very nice to have an item in a theme that allowed one to indicate which theme to inherit from, eg: default theme - no inheritance: printable.properties: org.jboss.seam.theme.inherit default accessible.properties: org.jboss.seam.theme.inherit default accessible-printable.properties org.jboss.seam.theme.inherit printable accessible ... Thus, the accessible-printable version would inherit first from printable, then from accessible. Assuming they could in fact co-exist, that might work out nicely to produce an accessible-printable version. It would also be nice to allow inheritance from generic property files that are NOT explicit themes - that way, you can put portions of a theme in another file, and just inherit from all the required themes. Note that the Java API makes this relatively easy, just be creating a chain of inheritance. (Note that only accessible would chain to default, a new printable would be needed that only inherited from accessible, not from anything else.)