[bt-devel] modify / create new templates

[cricketc at gmail.com]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 01:43:44AM -0400, David (Mailing List Addy) wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 August 2006 19:14, cricketc at gmail.com wrote:
> > > Hi, I'm kind of the officially unofficial template maintainer. Are there
> > > specific templates you are changing? If it's the high contrast that's
> > > already been done and I can send or you can pull from CVS. I've also made
> > > improvements re crossrefs, etc in the other templates and am working on
> > > improving the colours on the Crazy template as it doesn't work well with
> > > the words of Jesus being in red
> >
> > Honestly, the changes I'm talking about are basically making it a dark
> > background with light font. The reason is that it seems easier on my
> > eyes. I really don't care that much what looks good or any of
> > that.:) So no, I don't have one that I'm really working on - I'm
> > basically happy with anything that has the dark background, light
> > font.
> 
> Ok, well the new High Contrast template is white on black with a purplish 
> background for the current verse. Basically I matched the scheme to the "High 
> Contract Black Text" scheme in kde. And then I used other visual clues for 
> marking up text since otherwise it lessens the high contrast effect. I'll be 
> doing a High Contrast for each high contrast scheme in kde actually since we 
> can't really programatically make it match the scheme sadly.

Sounds good.

> 
> > For your other question about a modified template overriding the
> > originals: it doesn't. I modified the Simple template, and when I
> > copied it into the $HOME/.kde... directory, it just showed up twice -
> > once as the original and once as the "user template."
> 
> Ok good deal. Does it do anything to tell you which one is the "user template"
> 
Yes. For the original, it just says "Simple." For the other one it
says "Simple.tmpl (user template)."

-Benjie