[RFC|Merged] Removal of imagesets

[ecwpa]

I like this proposal. Making themes for mobile devices would be easier too, I think.


Now, I have a question. Could another language's css beside English be the default if other languages css fail to load? For example, Spanish being default if Italian fails to load.

[Arty]

Sure, just replace entries in global css files. Language fallback works like this:

First in overall_header.html global stylesheet.css is included. That stylesheet.css imports several css files, including colours.css
Code in theme/colours.css points to default icons:

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/* Big button images */
.reply-icon span	{ background-image: url("./en/button_topic_reply.gif"); }
.post-icon span		{ background-image: url("./en/button_topic_new.gif"); }
.locked-icon span	{ background-image: url("./en/button_topic_locked.gif"); }
.pmreply-icon span	{ background-image: url("./en/button_pm_reply.gif") ;}
.newpm-icon span 	{ background-image: url("./en/button_pm_new.gif") ;}
.forwardpm-icon span	{ background-image: url("./en/button_pm_forward.gif") ;}

Then in overall_header.html localized stylesheet.css (theme/whatever/{lang}/stylesheet.css) is included. It contains localized versions of those buttons:

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.reply-icon span	{ background-image: url("./button_topic_reply.gif"); }
.post-icon span		{ background-image: url("./button_topic_new.gif"); }
.locked-icon span	{ background-image: url("./button_topic_locked.gif"); }
.pmreply-icon span	{ background-image: url("./button_pm_reply.gif") ;}
.newpm-icon span 	{ background-image: url("./button_pm_new.gif") ;}
.forwardpm-icon span	{ background-image: url("./button_pm_forward.gif") ;}

If it doesn't exist, code in colours.css makes sure that images are displayed.

To change default fallback images just replace entries in colours.css to point them to whatever default images you want.

Exact code from prosilver's overall_header.html that shows how css files are included:

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<link href="{T_THEME_PATH}/print.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" title="printonly" />
<link href="{T_THEME_PATH}/stylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" />
<link href="{T_THEME_LANG_PATH}/stylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" />

<!-- IF S_CONTENT_DIRECTION eq 'rtl' -->
	<link href="{T_THEME_PATH}/bidi.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" />
<!-- ENDIF -->

[Oleg]

Moved to RFC forum.

[Arty]

Another patch, this version has backwards compatibility.
Patch: https://github.com/cyberalien/phpbb3/tr ... -imagesets

Styles could use some code cleanup, but I didn't do it because its not part of RFC. If this RFC is accepted, I'll write few more RFC's that improve styles that require implementation of this RFC.

I've also written simple script that converts imageset into css code to make transition easier, its in attachment. Upload to your forum, point it to style (see first lines of script), open in browser. CSS might require some manual adjustments after replacing everything.

[Arty]

Updated commits to fix white space issues and added that convertor script to phpBB/develop/

[Oleg]

I marked this RFC accepted, and I consider it ready for merging as I haven't seen any (unaddressed) objections in this topic.

[Qiaeru]

I agree completely with this idea.

[naderman]

Arty: Can you create a wiki article on how to port a 3.0 Theme/Imageset to 3.1?

[Arty]

Sure

[naderman]

Please update this RFC with a link to wiki docs when they're available. I'm going ahead and merging this, so Chris can get rid of db stored stuff.