wiki:ThemeEnginePlugin

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Remove outline, since it can't outline ReST content.

Modular styles manager

Notes

Adds a simple API and GUI for packaging and configuring Trac themes.

Configuration

trac.ini

All configuration options go in the [theme] section.

theme : optional, default: "default"
Theme name to use. Name is case-insensitive.
enable_css : optional, default: false
Enable or disable the CSS customizations.
color.* : optional
Stored values for simple CSS overrides. Note that changing this will not take effect until you save them in the admin panel.

Web interface

Theme

Use the arrows to select your theme from the installed options and then click the button to activate it.

http://trac-hacks.org/attachment/wiki/ThemeEnginePlugin/admin_theme.png?format=raw

Customize

Here you can further customize your theme by changing colors for certain pieces of the UI. The scheme drop down allows you to load pre-configured color schemes. Note that not all themes will support this, or support the same options.

http://trac-hacks.org/attachment/wiki/ThemeEnginePlugin/admin_customize.png?format=raw

Customize: Advanced

Here you can customize the CSS even further. As mentioned in the file, if you edit this file by hand, you should not use the simple customizer system or you will lose your changes.

http://trac-hacks.org/attachment/wiki/ThemeEnginePlugin/admin_advanced.png?format=raw

Example

To enable the PyDotOrg theme:

[theme]
theme = pydotorg

[components]
themeengine.* = enabled
pydotorgtheme.* = enabled

Creating a theme

Simple way

The easiest way to make a new theme is to inherit from ThemeBase. A basic example theme is as follows:

from trac.core import *

from themeengine.api import ThemeBase

class ExampleTheme(ThemeBase):
    """A example theme."""

    template = htdocs = css = screenshot = True

The name will be inferred from the class name ("Example" in this case) and the docstring will be used as the description. There are several class variables you can set to configure the theme. By default all of these are set to False and so are disabled. If set to True, each option will use a generally sane default. If set to any value other than those, that value will be used directly.

The available options as follows (all are optional):

template : default: $name_theme.html
The filename of the replacement template.
css : default: $name.css
Filename for a stylesheet to include.
htdocs : default: htdocs
Subfolder containing static content.
screenshot : default: htdocs/screenshot.png
Package-relative path to the screenshot file. File should be 640x400 or use the same aspect ratio.
colors :
Specifiers for simple color customization system. This should be an iterable of tuples of the form (name, property, selector). name will be shown in the customization UI for that entry. property will generally be color or background-color. selector should be a CSS selector string to apply the color rule to.
schemes :
Pre-built color schemes. This should be an iterable of tuples of the form (name, color_dict). The color_dict should be a dictionary mapping color name to hex color string (of the form #00AAFF).

Advanced API

For more advanced control you can implement IThemeProvider from themeengine.api. The interface definition is:

class IThemeProvider(Interface):
    """An interface to provide style information."""

    def get_theme_names():
        """Return an iterable of names."""

    def get_theme_info(name):
        """Return a dict containing 0 or more of the following pairs:

         description::
           A breif description of the theme.
         template::
           The name of the theme template file.
         css::
           The filename of the CSS file.
         htdocs::
           The folder containg the static content.
         screenshot::
           The name of the screenshot file.
         colors::
           A list of (name, css-property, selector) tuples.
         schemes::
           A list of (name, {color-name: value, ...}) tuples.
        """

Most of these are the same as the simple API above, except description is explicit.

Packaging A Theme

For lack of a decent guide right now, check out some of the existing themes.

One request, when taking screenshots please make them of the first wiki page, preferably with its default content. Also please make them match the aspect ratio of 640x400.

Bugs/Feature Requests

Existing bugs and feature requests for ThemeEnginePlugin are here.

If you have any issues, create a new ticket.

Download and Source

Download the zipped source from [download:themeengineplugin here]. You can check out ThemeEnginePlugin from here using Subversion, or browse the source with Trac.

Example

To enable:

[components]
themeengine.* = enabled

To specify a theme:

[theme]
theme = <Name>

Recent Changes

18454 by rjollos on 2021-10-18 16:56:07
ThemeEnginePlugin: Release version 2.3.1

Version 2.3.0 had a packaging problem.

Refs #14058.

18453 by rjollos on 2021-10-16 20:00:03
TracThemeEngine: Add release command
18452 by rjollos on 2021-10-16 19:57:10
ThemeEnginePlugin: Release version 2.3.0

Refs #14058.

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Author/Contributors

Author: coderanger
Maintainer: coderanger
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