[keycloak-dev] Remove built-in themes from themes directory

[Stan Silvert]

On 9/20/2019 9:04 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
> That's just messy
It solves everyone's concerns and it's easy to implement.

It would be kind of nice to have a development mode for other things as 
well.  We already have it for the new account console.

It would also be great to have tooling like you suggest.  But we've 
always rejected that as something that could easily turn into a huge 
project.

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> On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 at 13:36, Stan Silvert <ssilvert at redhat.com 
> <mailto:ssilvert at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>     How about having both?
>
>     Out of the box, it's in development mode and it uses what we have
>     today.  But we show warnings everywhere that you are in
>     development mode.
>
>     In production mode, it always uses the zip.
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>     On 9/20/2019 3:52 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
>>     Making things easy and just working is a high priority to us, but
>>     I wonder if it would actually be easier and more guaranteed to
>>     just work if built-in themes is in a zip. Arguments are basically:
>>
>>     * Prevents anyone modifying the built-in themes, which if you do
>>     would bring you problems later on
>>     * Makes it easier to update as the whole themes directory can be
>>     kept. Currently the built-in themes has to be replaced, but not
>>     custom themes
>>
>>     What might actually be real nice is to have a little tool to work
>>     with themes. Something like
>>
>>     kc-theme create --theme mytheme --parent keycloak
>>     kc-theme list-templates --type login
>>     kc-theme add-custom-template --theme mytheme --template login.ftl
>>     kc-theme add-custom-messages --theme mytheme --language en
>>
>>     On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 20:00, Asbjørn Thegler
>>     <asbjoern at deranged.dk <mailto:asbjoern at deranged.dk>> wrote:
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>>         On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 7:14 PM Stan Silvert
>>         <ssilvert at redhat.com <mailto:ssilvert at redhat.com>> wrote:
>>         > The easier it is to get that first "success" the greater
>>         the chance he
>>         > will continue onward and choose Keycloak.
>>         Being new to KeyCloak - this is something I can agree with.
>>         The glee
>>         of running a project that just works the first time is amazing.
>>
>>         It's part of the reason we stuck with KeyCloak, if I'd have
>>         to guess.
>>
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