It seemed like the dev list was more appropriate for this then the user list, so here goes. Having done theme work in the past on a verity of applications I decided to give RoundCube a go. I very much enjoy using RoundCube webmail but was looking for a more playful look. I decided to take the popular Thunderbird theme "iCandy Jr." and use it to skin RoundCube. So far I have gotten a good response and wanted to share it with you.
<a href="http://tenny.org/blog/installing-the-icandy-jr-theme-to-roundcube">Installing the icandy jr theme to RoundCube</a>
With that said, I have looked at the product roadmap and seen that one item listed is "Complete customization with skins". How much work (if any) has been done in this area yet and how can I get involved in helping?
-Jason tenny.org
Hi Jason, love the skin!
Jamie.
On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:05:58 -0500, jason@tenny.org wrote:
It seemed like the dev list was more appropriate for this then the user list, so here goes. Having done theme work in the past on a verity of applications I decided to give RoundCube a go. I very much enjoy using RoundCube webmail but was looking for a more playful look. I decided to take the popular Thunderbird theme "iCandy Jr." and use it to skin RoundCube. So far I have gotten a good response and wanted to share it with you.
<a href="http://tenny.org/blog/installing-the-icandy-jr-theme-to-roundcube">Installing the icandy jr theme to RoundCube</a>
With that said, I have looked at the product roadmap and seen that one item listed is "Complete customization with skins". How much work (if any) has been done in this area yet and how can I get involved in helping?
-Jason tenny.org
Hi Jason
I didn't see that sentence in the road map page... The basics for the RoundCube template/skin system are given and I think it works well. Of course there will be some improvements by adding more roundcube:XXX functions like for example if/else. First I intended to add a XML file mapping the templates to all specific tasks and actions (currently they file names are very static) to provide more flexibility but I think this idea is going to die.
RoundCube is still under heavy development and new GUI objects like buttons, search field, etc. will be added continuously. This makes the maintenance of skins very laborious. We will add a skins-section to the project website where all skins can be downloaded but I guess it's a bit too early (alpha version).
However, your skin looks nice and I'd like to see it grow along with the development of RoundCube. I'll let you know, when RoundCube officially provides a pool of skins for download.
Regards, Thomas
jason@tenny.org wrote:
It seemed like the dev list was more appropriate for this then the user list, so here goes. Having done theme work in the past on a verity of applications I decided to give RoundCube a go. I very much enjoy using RoundCube webmail but was looking for a more playful look. I decided to take the popular Thunderbird theme "iCandy Jr." and use it to skin RoundCube. So far I have gotten a good response and wanted to share it with you.
<a href="http://tenny.org/blog/installing-the-icandy-jr-theme-to-roundcube">Installing the icandy jr theme to RoundCube</a>
With that said, I have looked at the product roadmap and seen that one item listed is "Complete customization with skins". How much work (if any) has been done in this area yet and how can I get involved in helping?
-Jason tenny.org
NOTE: I tried posting this to your site, but it gave me permission denied, and a 404.
On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:05:58 -0500, jason@tenny.org wrote:
It seemed like the dev list was more appropriate for this then the user list, so here goes. Having done theme work in the past on a verity of applications I decided to give RoundCube a go. I very much enjoy using RoundCube webmail but was looking for a more playful look. I decided to take the popular Thunderbird theme "iCandy Jr." and use it to skin RoundCube. So far I have gotten a good response and wanted to share it with you.
Nice work Jason, thanks for your efforts. My only suggestion would be to create a new directory for your skin so as not to overwrite the default skin, then just select yours via the config/main.inc.php file. I would assume eventually this would be toggled under 'Preferences' tab within the GUI. Steps:
<code>Change to the base of your Roundcubemail directory # cd skins # cp -Rp default tenny.org # cd tenny.org # wget http://www.tenny.org/files/images.zip # unzip -o images.zip # vi ../../config/main.inc.php
Change this line: $rcmail_config['skin_path'] = 'skins/default/';
to this:
$rcmail_config['skin_path'] = 'skins/tenny.org/';</code>
Also, nice HOWTO on your site to install Roundcube, I have a similar one here: http://fak3r.com/articles/2005/11/15/howto-install-roundcube-webmail-from-cv...
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