teamrubber.snakeskin 1.0

A paster template for creating derivative themes.

Introduction

SnakeSkin allows skin products for Plone 3 to be created easily in a similar way to the ZopeSkel plone3_theme template. The primary difference is that plone3_theme assumes either a blank theme or a customisation of the default, whereas snakeskin allows the user to select the theme he wants to customise.

This is very useful for commercial environments where a generic skin requires small modifications on a client-by-client basis.

An example using an internal teamrubber skin is:

Nimbus:trunk matthewwilkes$ paster create -t plone3_snakeskin
Selected and implied templates:
  ZopeSkel#basic_namespace               A project with a namespace package
  teamrubber.snakeskin#plone3_snakeskin  A Theme for Plone 3.1 based on another theme egg.

Enter project name: example.skin
Variables:
  egg:      example.skin
  package:  exampleskin
  project:  example.skin
Enter namespace_package (Namespace package (like plonetheme)) ['plonetheme']: example
Enter package (The package contained namespace package (like example)) ['example']: skin
Enter version (Version) ['1.0']:
Enter theme_name (The name of this theme) ['']: Example Skin
Enter base_theme (The package containing the theme to base on) ['']: opsuite.skin
Enter base_spec (The same as above with an optional version specification) ['']: opsuite.skin
Enter basename (The name of the Zope skin layer the above theme provides) ['Plone Default']: OpSuite Skin
Enter description (One-line description of the package) ['A theme based on an existing arbitrary plone 3 theme.']:
Enter long_description (Multi-line description (in reST)) ['']:
Enter author (Author name) ['']: Matthew Wilkes
Enter author_email (Author email) ['']: [e-mail]
Enter keywords (Space-separated keywords/tags) ['']:
Enter url (URL of homepage) ['']: http://www.teamrubber.com
Enter license_name (License name) ['GPL']: GPL
Enter zip_safe (True/False: if the package can be distributed as a .zip file) [False]:

Changelog

1.0

Initial concept, includes some ideas from OOTB plone themes, but not all

[MatthewWilkes]