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Up for discussion:

The userscript I (and others) have written seems to be fairly popular among people who have found it. I’ve had several requests to turn it into a Lemmy theme, but I have been hesitant to do so. Partly because I lack the skill to do it, and partly because it isn’t really a “theme” as such. It doesn’t change the colors or do some of the things a theme typically does. In truth, the script is actually (essentially) theme agnostic - I use it with darkly, but it works with all of the other Lemmy themes without issue (hopefully).

I have no qualms with someone helping turn the CSS stuff into a Lemmy theme (or just taking the bull by the horns and doing it) , but with the changes coming in v.0.18 it may be better to wait.

Anyone have any thoughts? Is this script even appropriate for a Lemmy theme?

    • God@sh.itjust.worksM
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      1 year ago

      I think this is the guide for installing themes for lemmy instance admins. Not for the theme makers. We have to see how to test a theme without having control of the deployment.

    • God@sh.itjust.worksM
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      1 year ago

      k so i researched, there’s nothing new about this bootstrap stuff, what’s new is they’re adding classes to make it easier to theme https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/1361

      and that they’re discussing theming

      next step is then to check if, having your theme converted to pure CSS or SCSS, when put into the themes folder of a deployment, does it look the same as the userscript, or does it substitute the previous theme and therefore deletes existing colors and shit, or is it simlpy incompatible because it assumes it’s a bootstrap theme and then does it destroy the whole ui due to the lack of bootstrappy defaults?

      ez way to check: convince an instance holder (example, the dude) to run a dummy lemmy-ui with a dummy theme that was tedted on stylus for example and see how it behaves when placed into the themes folder.

      • mershed_perderders@sh.itjust.worksOPM
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        1 year ago

        yeah, i was aware of the theming and UI discussion. I’ve actually started a new userscript based on the beta test instance here: https://enterprise.lemmy.ml/

        The CSS will indeed look the same from a layout perspective, but it doesn’t change any colors - and you can’t select two themes at the same time (currently). It doesn’t destroy any bootstrappy defaults, but it would default back to the standard bootstrap color theme. This is why I lean towards this not being appropriate for a “native” Lemmy theme.

        Converting the script to stylus is rather trivial - especially now that the comment collapse button and mobile styling is being modified with pure CSS. There are no other functions to convert.

        • God@sh.itjust.worksM
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          1 year ago

          The CSS will indeed look the same from a layout perspective, but it doesn’t change any colors - and you can’t select two themes at the same time (currently). It doesn’t destroy any bootstrappy defaults, but it would default back to the standard bootstrap color theme

          Are you implying that you have the ability to upload a .css directly to the UI somehow? or how are you testing its effect on colors and boostraps default classes & color themes? are you talking about stylus with this or something else? cuz i went into enterprise.lemmy.ml and the theme selector seems to have the same themes as this one, maybe i’m missing something.