@phenomlab of course, to be recognised is fantastic.

@phenomlab said in Ch..ch..ch..ch..changes!:

Sadly, no. Web crawlers and scrapers are often JS based and read text only, so styles don’t have any bearing.

I’ve read mixed things about this, but no that does make sense, it was something I read a many years back when using Wordpress.

@cagatay these changes aren’t published anywhere presently, so nothing for you to do.

@veronikya it might flicker on load, yes, and that’s normal. It’s because the CSS and JS are loaded before the custom elements, but it shouldn’t be too bad on reasonable links.

It shouldn’t flicker at all navigating through the site though as the CSS and JS are already loaded.

I relented somewhat here and added another swatch - one I missed, which was previous called “blackout”. This specific one has been adapted to work on the new theming engine, but the others have been reclassified, and renamed to suit.

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As a result, the theme you might have had will probably be reflecting something else, so you (might) need to change your themes accordingly. The changes are as follows

Light -> No Change
Cloudy -> Is now the old “Dim”
Dim -> Is now the old “Dark”
Dark -> Now a new theme based on the revamped “Blackout”

@cagatay Not to my knowledge.

@phenomlab said in Theming support in Sudonix:

I thought I’d better come by here with an update so everyone knows that the Swatch project isn’t abandoned, or has simply “gone cold”. In fact, quite the opposite.

I’ve setup a dev instance on my home network which I’m currently developing against. I’ll put some screenshots up soon, but the Swatch code is currently enjoying a rewrite. The great news is that you’ll get ten times the flexibility you have now meaning greater support for light themes, although the downside is that there isn’t that much backwards compatibility meaning some of my own themes even need to be completely redesigned.

However, this isn’t the end of the world. Once you’re familiar with the classes, it really doesn’t take long at all to create your own themes.

More to follow.

I’ll be putting together a video of what the revamped theme will look like very soon - just got some small issues to iron out, and code cleanup beforehand…