On Friday 20 November 2009 19:31:40 Christian Funder Sommerlund (Zero3) wrote:
> Ian Clarke skrev:
> > I think our current problem is that despite our best efforts, the 
> > current UI is built "from the code forward", rather than "from the user 
> > back", and as such I think it is fundamentally flawed.  Despite how much 
> > we try, I think it is very difficult for us to put ourselves in the 
> > shoes of an ordinary Freenet user, we are already too immersed in the 
> > concepts and jargon of Freenet.
> 
> One of the main issues (IMHO) is that modifying the current GUI is 
> nearly impossible as a contributing user. There are no theme templates 
> available to easily play around with. Last I heard was that you have to 
> actually recompile Freenet if you want to make any GUI changes besides 
> smallish CSS hacks :/.

All the themeing is in CSS, themes can change a lot (compare the minimalist 
theme to just about any other theme).
> 
> I think we have a long standing bug report somewhere about the 
> implementation of a theming engine...

Themeing engines have been discussed but generally are rather heavyweight 
(big!) and usually not much easier to use than hacking the java code itself - 
because major changes require, at some point, some sort of programming language!
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