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

• To change the display name of your theme to match that of the directory, edit

      NameOfYourTheme/init.rb

• At this point the theme should be visible and selectable in http://hda/setup?tab=themes
• The most important file in the theme is the CSS file, which contains the styling for the theme. The file is located in

     style.css

• The rest of the theme look is determined by the images, which are referenced by the platform code
• The theme screenshot file should be 640x480 and is located in

     theme-sshot.png

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

     theme-thumb.png

• You can change the name of the them, and the color scheme of the piecharts in

     init.rb

Themes in Git

The existing themes are available in the git tree at:

           amahi/themes

i.e

           git clone git://git.amahi.org/amahi.git
           cd amahi/themes

you can add yours there, then contribute it via a git patch. See Contribute for sending patches via git.