Gallery 1.X theme?
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draco2002
Joined: 2003-04-28
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Posted: Fri, 2004-05-14 12:33
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Just a quick question/suggestion about the G2 themes. First off before i suggest or ask anything, i want to let you guys know that G2 is moving along, and looks and works great. Keep up the great work Now if i may ask for a favor. I have a decent amount of users on my 1.x galleries that i host, my only concern is that most of them are of the, well, computer iliterate(to put it nicely), so would it be easy enough to have a theme very similar to the 1.X theme so that the users would not have to relearn and refind most of the features? In the next couple of weeks i hope to start fiddling with the theme myself, but was just seeing if there was already something like this planed or already in the works. Thanks again Draco |
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That might be hard - as G2 has completely moved away from popup windows.
You might be able to move the navigation to the top and put all the links in [brackets] though, that might give it a similar feel.
Someone will probably chime in with a more offical answer.
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Thanks for the quick response.
actually started tinkering with it today, will give a week or so of messing around with then i'll throw up a demo.
Your right no getting around the pop-up's thing, will just have to see what i can do
Draco
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What you're talking about is a layout, not a theme. You probably also want to do a theme so that you get a similar color scheme, but in order to actually make things look similar when browsing you have to come up with a layout that presents the album thumbnails and images in a similar manner as before.
Doing a custom theme will take you part of the way there. Problem is, while most of the G1 features are in G2, they're called different things and are in different places. I don't think that there's any way to make them line up in the same fashion as before. I imagine you'll get a pretty good idea of what's possible and what isn't when you start fiddling with it...