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diff --git a/doc/todo/Modern_standard_layout.mdwn b/doc/todo/Modern_standard_layout.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..37f1ee740 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/Modern_standard_layout.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +I think it would be a good idea to think about the standard layout style of ikiwiki, the current layout used in a standard setup and on ikiwiki.info as well looks a bit old-fashioned to me. I guess that a nice modern layout would attract more new ikiwiki users and boost the ikwiki community... + +> FWIW, I agree. The actiontabs [[theme|themes]] would be a better default, but something which showed what ikiwiki was capable of (or more precicely: that ikiwiki is as capable as other popular wiki softwares) would be better still. — [[Jon]] + +>> As an author of plugins that interact with the UI, I think it's good that +>> a *minimal* ikiwiki has a minimal anti-theme, and that plugins are +>> developed against the anti-theme - it's a "blank slate" for themes. +>> [[plugins/contrib/trail]] was much easier to get working in +>> the default anti-theme than in actiontabs and blueview. +>> +>> Technical detail: all the standard themes are done by appending to the +>> anti-theme's CSS (albeit in ikiwiki's build system rather than during +>> the wiki build), rather than by replacing it - so themes that haven't +>> been updated for a new UI element end up using the version of it from +>> the anti-theme. [[plugins/Comments]] and [[plugins/contrib/trail]] +>> both need some tweaks per-theme to make them integrate nicely, +>> but most of the design comes from the anti-theme. +>> +>> That doesn't necessarily mean the anti-theme should be the one used +>> on ikiwiki.info, or used by default in new wikis - from my +>> point of view, it'd be fine for either of those to be actiontabs +>> or something The important thing is to *have* a "blank slate" anti-theme +>> that looks simple but sufficient, as a basis for new styles (either +>> [[themes]], or wikis that want their own unique stylesheet), and derive +>> the other themes from it. --[[smcv]] + +> Ikiwiki's minimal theme is not modern. It's postmodern. I like it for the +> reasons described here. <http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/web_minimalism/> +> " The minimalism sucked you in, it made the web feel like one coherent, +> unified thing, unlike the constellation of corporate edifices occupying +> much of it today." +> +> I see an increasing trend back toward these principles, driven partly +> by limits of eg, smartphone UI. So I certianly won't be changing the +> look of any of my ikiwiki sites, including this one. +> +> `auto.setup` and `auto-blog.setup` could have different defaults, +> or allow a theme to be picked as [Branchable](http://branchable.com/) +> does. Perhaps actiontabs for auto-blog and default for wikis? --[[Joey]] |