Adrian Crum wrote:
On 1/6/2011 11:11 AM, Ryan Foster wrote:
I think the way that Magento and Wordpress do it are good examples. With Wordpress,
there is one "official" theme that is
included with the install, but there are literally thousands of themes that are
not maintained by Wordpress that they list on
there site http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/, and now with the 3.0 release
you can even search for new themes and install them
automatically from inside your Wordpress install. Doing it this way fosters
wider community support by delegating maintenance
of these themes to individual contributors rather than forcing it on a handful
of committers and also allows developers to
monetize there contributions by offering "premium" themes and plugins. In
fact, there are many individuals and companies in the
Wordpress community that make their living solely by selling themes and
plugins. This furthers solidifies the base of support
for the project by offering a mid-tier option for someone who wants something more than OOTB but can't
necessarily afford custom development.
This was discussed when we first added visual theme capability. There is
nothing blocking third-party visual themes being offered on other sites.
It was suggested that OFBiz have only one theme, but the decision was
made to have more than one so that visual theme selection could be
demonstrated.
-Adrian
I guess Ryan would hope to have a mechanism to handle it graciously
Jacques
