[keycloak-dev] initial theme feedback

[Stian Thorgersen]

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 at redhat.com>
> To: keycloak-dev at 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?
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