Zen Task Force

If I build a Theme that uses no PHP or GPL'd JavaScript but does incorporate PERL code in the template would that PERL code need to be GPL'd?

I realize of course this would mean that the hosting installation would have to have PERL enabled on their server (not a normal Drupal setup) but I don't think that is the same as "requiring a 3rd party proprietary program" since PERL is open source and quite common on many hosting services.

There has been much discussion through the years about the automatic GPL status of Themes and Modules, and I will weigh in on that topic itself in another post (see the bottom of this post). But for now suffice it to say that I see an argument in favor of requiring GPL for Modules but I see a very different and very compelling argument in favor of excluding Themes from the GPL mandate. This post is to address a pre-cursor to that argument ...

Hi!

If I'm not in the right forum for this kind of topic, please accept my apologies -- and it would be great if you could direct me to a more appropriate place.

I'd like to print the $title above $content and $sidebar_second, but to the right of $sidebar_first. What the best way to do that?

I have written a Sass base file with variables and mixins meant to ease the override of Zen layout-fixed.css
http://gist.github.com/614645

It provides variables like $zen-content-position, which controls whether the content comes before the two sidebars, in the middle of the sidebars or after them. other variables control sidebars and content width, and navigation height.

The idea behind this sass file is making Zen easier to manipulate without editing any of the provided css files.

Hi there, i was wondering if you can help me, i have recently installed the latest Zen theme to start work on a new site and noticed it's changed slightly with the amount of stylesheets involved now. This is fine but i need to know what you recommend to do with the sub-themes. It's giving me a headache battling with so many stylesheets and switching from one to another to do some simple styling.

What's the best practice, should i be working on my own .css file overwriting these stylesheets or just amend each one as i go along?

Cheers for your help!

Rik

I'm building my site using D7 and Zen. I want my regions to appear in this order:

$content
$left
$right

However, the regions appear like this:

$left
$content
$right

How do I accomplish both sidebars appearing after the content region?

Using Zen 2...

I try to position Site Name and Slogan so that they would be a bit lower than Logo. I have tried doing this by giving either #name-and-slogan a margin-top:6%; (I tried px too) or by giving #site-slogan a margin-top:6%;. (I have repositioned Slogan so that it is before Site Name in page.tpl.php.

My problem:
the Logo moves down too even though it is before Site and Slogan in the code and is outside of the DIV(s) I try to move.

Hi!

Almost a Zen virgin, even though I thought I knew css fairly well I have always trouble figuring out other peoples code.

I copied the starterkit as a sub theme and enabled it. Then I put some blocks to the left and right (first and second) sidebar so that they surely would show up. Now I have some content (navigation menu and stuff) in the left sidebar but the main content (middle) is NOT pushed to the middle and is just overlapping left (and right) sidebar.

Our Drupal sites are hosted on a multisite Drupal installation. Most of the sites use a Zen 1 subtheme and use Zen as installed in sites/all/themes. However, I've been using Zen 2 for new projects, putting the Zen 2 directory in sites/example.com/themes. This works well, but now I've got about ten different Zen 2 directories strewn about my Sites directory, which isn't good.