Note to Terry. You need not be concerned about this. The proposal does not affect existing users of themes directly, except to clarify the differences between themes.
If there is a problem, we could revert just leoSettings.leo. Moving to a new branch doesn't help because changes to leoSettings.leo (within Leo) persist when switching branches. As always, if there is a problem I will be responsible for making things right again. I am about to refactor Leo's the @theme trees in leoSettings.leo into an unchanging *base *part, and a few *overrides *for each theme. Themes will be defined by their overrides. A *copy *of each base will be included in each @theme tree. Copies are required because Leo does not support including one stylesheet in another. The intention is that base part will *never* change. *Pros* Separating overrides from the bases will make it much clearer what the differences between themes are. This is a big deal, for both users and devs. Moreover, If the base ever does need to change, it will be easier to copy the base tree to all @theme nodes than to make changes piecemeal to all @theme trees. I've made such piecemeal changes repeatedly in recent days. It gets old quickly. *Cons* The refactoring might, by mistake, change the effect of one or more of the themes. But this will effect only *new* users of themes. Old users won't be using any of these themes--they'll be using their previous themes. And even old users might prefer to use the new themes, since their customizations can be localized. *Summary* The new @theme nodes will exist only to leoSettings.leo. They will not take effect unless a user copies an @theme node to myLeoSettings.leo. The refactoring will help both devs and users, including existing users. The refactoring might, by mistake, change what themes do, but that should not cause great problems. The new scheme will help me *today* when I create @theme Linux EKR dark. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
