Theme: Twitter Bootstrap 2.x

qrig

Joined: 2010-11-09
Posts: 2
Posted: Fri, 2012-09-14 21:53

Not a request but something I've definitely got in the motions at the moment. I've always had a soft spot for Twitter's Bootstrap framework http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/ and use it in professional projects where possible. After playing with base themes in Gallery 3 and trying to modify them for my own purposes, I thought lets start off with a new base to work off and see how it goes.

I'm going to have two versions available - Bootstrap Responsive and Bootstrap Fixed. Both will allow drop in Bootstrap themes. I'm also interested in seeing how well LESS (http://lesscss.org/) works to allow quick and easy skinning. Thankfully Kohana's architecture and the Menalto team's work means most of the required files can be packaged in the theme, including any custom module's template changes.

At the moment, I'm going to try and get an alpha version ready in a couple of weeks of the Responsive theme before it hits my git repo.

* jQuery updated to 1.8.0
* Migrating Superfish to Bootstrap Dropdown menus has worked well
* Responsive Grid needs work due to padding issues.
* Menus themselves are proving interesting to restructure since the builder is shared, and the menu usage is different for some elements (such as the Options Contextual Menu). Not as easy as I thought to identify context menu from the main nav menus.
* Conversion from jQuery UI Dialog to Bootstrap Modal is proving fun, having to rewrite gallery.dialog.js to suit.

I'll keep you guys up to date :)
 
floridave
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Joined: 2003-12-22
Posts: 27300
Posted: Fri, 2012-09-14 22:21

Looks great, subscribing to thread to see what you have done.
Having a up to date JS/CSS framework will be cool.

Dave
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madmarkus
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Joined: 2007-02-04
Posts: 10
Posted: Mon, 2012-09-17 15:37

Sounds great, have you published something yet? is there a github repo?
 
qrig

Joined: 2010-11-09
Posts: 2
Posted: Mon, 2012-09-17 23:24

Not as of yet, just want to get the base bedded down before I put an alpha up. It's still a mess :) By the end of the week I should have something ready.

EDIT: On second thoughts, here is where it'll live - https://github.com/vorknhull/Gallery3BootstrapResponsive. Still not ready for production use, still a lot of functionality broken. Gradually adding them as time permits (currently away from my home city at the moment for a few weeks).