Separation of themes

[neznaika0]

I look at the themes folder and see that it's ugly. Almost all of the JS/CSS is needed from default to admin. I fixed the styles in default. But there are none in the admin area, although 99% of the templates have the same UI blocks: nav main sidebar footer...

Don't you think you should combine them using default as the basis? For SCSS, importing should help. I don't know for JS.

Another moment. Why are the admin templates in the App/Views and not in the themes?
There are common templates in app/Views - pager, errors, alerts.. If the theme affects them, they should be located in themes/
If you were trying to implement 10+ themes with your own styles, then this is a mistake. It is worth separate themes in the directory to expand from basic components to administrative ones.
As:
themes

- CI
-- js
-- style
-- admin
-- common

- OldMode
-- js
-- style
-- admin
-- common

[lonnieezell]

The goal was that the admin theme would be 100% separated from any changes someone might want/need to do for their frontend. this was never just a project for CodeIgniter's site.

And then I had debated whether to support themes that fell back to the default theme but the current theme system is pretty simple. At the time it was decided it wasn't necessary to fallback themes, but even if we did we'd probably still want the admin theme separate.

And I always figured we'd do a redesign on the admin area once we got farther along. That's why stuff currently looks like a copy - it is.

[neznaika0]

It is sad. Now, what worked in default doesn't work in admin. I understand when the theme changes 100% like in WP, OpenCart... in our case, this is unnecessary. Sorry.

I wanted to adapt the design to the standard, but this separation makes it difficult.

Additionally. The top bar is different. I'm at a loss how to go back, the menu is changing.

Can we make it easier at this stage?

[neznaika0]

I wanted to follow the standard. But now there are about 4 style options.

html
- head
- styles
body
- nav
- - container
- main.sidebar
- - main
- - sidebar
- footer
- - container
alerts
scripts

or

html
- head
- styles
body
- nav
- - container
- main
- - container
- footer
- - container
alerts
scripts

[neznaika0]

I check on different screens. It doesn't look right, I'm adding styles, but they should be duplicated.
I'm not a designer, it's hard to come up with a good design quickly. Instead of php, I'm wasting my time on something else.
This is the main point.

[lonnieezell]

First you need to understand that this has always been designed with the mind that it could be used for things other than just CodeIgniter forums. Which is why it was designed with that strict separation.

For the most part - don't worry about duplicating all changes between themes. At some point relatively soon I hope to go through and give the admin it's own theme.

Also - feel free to just use the daisyui components when building new forms, etc, and I can go back and make it pretty. Not a problem.

[neznaika0]

The problem is that I don't have access to many domains. The daisyui.com component documentation is too. I'm still trying to assemble the created pages.