[keycloak-dev] initial theme feedback

[Bill Burke]

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 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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