theme general design

[Sebastián Gurin, módosítva 15 év-val korábban]

Hi all. I had successfully developed my own theme using "classic" theme as a start point.

Now I need to make "serious" design changes that implies structure and visual behavior modifications. For example, I want all dock's items (like "Home", "My account", "My places", etc) to be horizontally visible without having to hovering. Investigating a little I've seen that, although one can modify theme's html markup with velocity templates, the markup is *tied to non theme javascript files* like the ones in portal-web\docroot\html\js\liferay. For example portal-web\docroot\html\js\liferay\dock.js depends on a html markup given by .vm theme templates. if dock corresponding html markup is modified by a theme, then portal-web\docroot\html\js\liferay\dock.js won't work.

My first question is, it is recommendable to modify a theme's markup that will make javascript like portal-web\docroot\html\js\liferay\dock.js unusable ? It is recommendable to *redefine* javascript objects like Liferay.Dock, Liferay.Navigation in theme's javascript.js ?

second: wouldn't be better that each theme define its own Liferay.Dock, Liferay.Navigation, etc javascript objects since these objects expects a markup given by theme's velocity templates?

thanks in advance. any suggestion or experience on this kind of situation is welcome. and excuse my poor english...

[Ray Augé, módosítva 15 év-val korábban]

You can start dy simply disabling the js on the dock by removing the [tt]interactive-mode[/tt] class on the top level dock [tt]div[/tt].

That should reduce the dock to just some relatively basic list format which you can then style as desired.

Hope that helps!

[Sebastián Gurin, módosítva 15 év-val korábban]

Thanks Ray for your reply!

yes, disable "interactive-mode " is what I want. Or at least, because it seems that "My places" dock's item is not supported in "non-interactive-mode ". But this is enough for me, i can start working from here. thanks again.

[Sebastián Gurin, módosítva 15 év-val korábban]

I forgot to say. i have tried to disable "interactive-mode" in both classic and brochure themes' dock. In both cases "My places" dock item doesn't appear. If "interactive-mode" is synonymous of "javascript disabled" i think that it does make sense. But if dock's interactive-mode means something more related with aesthetics i think a "my places" drop item can be done.

[Michael Saechang, módosítva 15 év-val korábban]

moved to Custom Theme Development.