How to Create a new Theme

How to Create a Theme

Creating a theme is easy nowadays:

• Pick a base theme to start with, say, BaseTheme
• Pick a name for the new theme, let's say NameOfYourTheme
• Copy the theme directory:

      cd /var/hda/platform/html/public/themes
      cp -a BaseTheme NameOfYourTheme

• Edit

      NameOfYourTheme/init.rb

• to change the display name of your theme to match that of the directory.
• At this point the theme should be visible and selectable in http://hda/setup?tab=themes
• Of course, you can change the color scheme of the piecharts in init.rb also
• The details of the theme can be found in the NameOfYourTheme/style.css file and of course, the images!

Old Instructions

(to be deleted after 8/09)

• Invoke the theme generator with the name as the first argument

     /usr/sbin/hda-generate-theme NameOfYourTheme

• The theme directory should be created at this point as NameOfYourTheme
• cd into it
• The theme screenshot file should be 640x480 and is located in

     app/theme/theme-sshot.png

• The theme thumbnail file should be 64x64 and is located in

     app/theme/theme-thumb.png

• The theme icon (for the installer in MyApps page), should be 48x48, and is located

     app/icon.png

• The most important file in the theme is the CSS file, which contains the styling for the theme. The file is located in

     app/theme/style.css