Wanna patch?

[ninetydegrees]

We've had lots of lovely themes submitted in the last few days - thank you, designers! - and I thought it would be a good opportunity to ask if anybody wants to try and patch one but has never dared to or simply doesn't know where to start. Don't worry if you've never done that before or never written any code. I've been in your very shoes. :) I know it looks scary and complicated and impossible but I promise it won't look that way once you've done it. If you're on Windows, I can walk you through the process from start to finish. If you're on a Mac or Linux, I'm sure someone else will volunteer to help you (and the process isn't that different so I may be able to help as well or ask the right people questions). If you'd like to give it a try, simply comment. You can also PM me.

Comments

[ninetydegrees]

I'm sure it wouldn't be that hard to you. Long, maybe, but not hard. And yeah looking at other patches would help. If you tell me the level of conversion it needs I could probably link you to the patch that is the closest to what you need to do.

Hmm. I'm not sure it's enough for Denise. Have you tried contacted the author?

[foxfirefey]

Sometimes long but not hard is just what I need. Sometimes I feel like I want to do something, but don't have the energy for something that requires a lot of brain power! (Like, OMG, how do I fix these community posts from getting backdated and thus not showing up without KILLING EVERYTHING?)

If you know of a good example of turning-CSS-into-S2-style, I'm all ears.

I haven't poked her, I think, but to be honest, I'm half way to pretty much making something similar to that style (including some S2 changes), but different enough that we wouldn't have to worry. I like the look of it more than the actual implementation, and would be making lots more color themes for it.

[ninetydegrees]

If it's a color theme, all the ones we've got recently are really easy to convert. I can link you to my latest theme patch: http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2448

If it's a style, I think Sunday Morning is a good example: http://dreamscapes.dreamwidth.org/4835.html
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1614

I'm looking forward to a Fey layout. ;)