Sub-Theme Submission

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Posted by eric at nrd on February 8, 2009 at 2:15am

I find the Zen theme to be immensely useful, and wanted to give back a little something as a "thank you".

I've created a sub-theme that labels all of Zen's block level elements (div id="page", div id="header", etc.), and creates very colorful outlines around them to make it easier to figure out the id and class for each area of the page (sort of like using the Web Developer Toolbar for Firefox with "Display Id & Class" and "Outline Block Level Elements" enabled). This is obviously not something anyone would want to use as an actual theme, but I've found the resulting output helpful as a theme development reference.

See attached image for the result -- a rainbow of labeled divs!

Anyhow, so my question is, what would be the best way to contribute this? I could simply submit it as a Drupal theme, but it isn't really intended to actually be used as a final theme. I could make a tgz and submit it to the issue queue, or I could post it here as an attachment.

Any opinions?

Thanks,
Eric

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Actually, submitting it as a

Posted by Garrett Albright on February 9, 2009 at 4:26pm
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Actually, submitting it as a Drupal theme would probably be the best way. That way, you can take advantage of the D.o server's version control (if you can figure out how to use it… it's a bit of a bane for me personally) and issue queues. I think anyone who's not blind will realize this theme is not intended for use on a live site.

The Boise Drupal Guy!

Thanks Garrett. Maybe I'll

Posted by eric at nrd on February 10, 2009 at 4:57am
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Thanks Garrett. Maybe I'll clean up one of my more functional Zen sub-themes too, and work on actually submitting them both.

I've used CVS and Subversion in the past, so hopefully it won't be too frightening to submit to D.o... :-)

-Eric

I would find this incredibly useful right now

Posted by justmagicmaria on February 25, 2009 at 4:50pm
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Thanks for taking the time to do this!!

I found the image that mollyclare made to be incredibly helpful, but this would be nice to have to play with using Firebug. (And Molly's was somewhat simplified.)

I'll email you and see if you can send me a tar file.

Maria

I guess I really need to

Posted by eric at nrd on February 25, 2009 at 7:10pm
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I guess I really need to work on getting CVS access to Drupal.org...

For now, I've posted zen_wireframe on my Web site.