Place for the Coderberg users / Community to publish custom themes for the Codeberg frontend #1131

GamePlayer-8 commented 2023年08月10日 20:14:28 +02:00

Good evening,

Just a suggestion - a place where users would publish custom CSS for Forgejo / Codeberg and share with other users.

May look like a list with upvotes / downvotes + report/install buttons and will require signing with through Codeberg.

⚠️ This suggestion may require rewriting the way of how Forgejo loads themes.

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crystal commented 2023年08月10日 20:59:49 +02:00

I think Codeberg's community would be open to the introduction of new themes by sending pull requests to https://codeberg.org/codeberg/forgejo

What you're describing sounds somewhat interesting, but as you mentioned, it would require extensive changes to Forgejo which may be undesirable in other applications.

I think Codeberg's community would be open to the introduction of new themes by sending pull requests to https://codeberg.org/codeberg/forgejo What you're describing sounds somewhat interesting, but as you mentioned, it would require extensive changes to Forgejo which may be undesirable in other applications.

n0toose commented 2023年08月10日 21:51:51 +02:00

Slightly off-topic, but I'd love to have, for the sake of making an example, Catpuccin. I would also advocate for having it included in Codeberg, like other themes (but I'm not sure who maintains it - so I can't ask them): https://github.com/catppuccin/codeberg

Do we think that "established color schemes" (e.g. that one, or some sort of a solarized dark theme, etc.) would be something that Forgejo would be open to approving?

P.S. It was mentioned somewhere (possibly verbally) that if we allow that on the fork itself, we would have the expectation that the theme authors would contribute to adding support for their own themes from version to version or get removed at a later version.

Slightly off-topic, but I'd *love* to have, for the sake of making an example, Catpuccin. I would also advocate for having it included in Codeberg, like other themes (but I'm not sure who maintains it - so I can't ask them): https://github.com/catppuccin/codeberg Do we think that "established color schemes" (e.g. that one, or some sort of a solarized dark theme, etc.) would be something that Forgejo would be open to approving? P.S. It was mentioned somewhere (possibly verbally) that if we allow that on the fork itself, we would have the expectation that the theme authors would contribute to adding support for their own themes from version to version or get removed at a later version.

crystal commented 2023年08月10日 23:05:10 +02:00

I believe many members of the Forgejo community would also be open to the introduction of new themes. We do need to consider how much additional technical overhead will be incurred by testing and maintaining themes that are added to the codebase, as anything that's included with Forgejo should work perfectly out of the box.

I believe many members of the Forgejo community would also be open to the introduction of new themes. We do need to consider how much additional technical overhead will be incurred by testing and maintaining themes that are added to the codebase, as anything that's included with Forgejo should work perfectly out of the box.

fnetX commented 2023年08月12日 00:46:02 +02:00

Codeberg/Documentation#114 (comment) is basically how custom themes could work. The maintenance is the important aspect, I doubt that sharing random snippets works fine.

Some apps have many themes, but when you click through them and they're all basically broken, you simply stop using any custom theme (or you are bored too much). I went through this with Geany and Adminer, for example. And Atom (IDE).

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Documentation/issues/114#issuecomment-998493 is basically how custom themes could work. The maintenance is the important aspect, I doubt that sharing random snippets works fine. Some apps have many themes, but when you click through them and they're all basically broken, you simply stop using any custom theme (or you are bored too much). I went through this with Geany and Adminer, for example. And Atom (IDE).