This feature introduces the concept of themes. Themes are an evolution
of site customizations.
Themes introduce two very big conceptual changes:
- A theme may include other "child themes", children can include grand
children and so on.
- A theme may specify a color scheme
The change does away with the idea of "enabled" color schemes.
It also adds a bunch of big niceties like
- You can source a theme from a git repo
- History for themes is much improved
- You can only have a single enabled theme. Themes can be selected by
users, if you opt for it.
On a technical level this change comes with a whole bunch of goodies
- All CSS is now compiled using a custom pipeline that uses libsass
see /lib/stylesheet
- There is a single pipeline for css compilation (in the past we used
one for customizations and another one for the rest of the app
- The stylesheet pipeline is now divorced of sprockets, there is no
reliance on sprockets for CSS bundling
- CSS is generated with source maps everywhere (including themes) this
makes debugging much easier
- Our "live reloader" is smarter and avoid a flash of unstyled content
we run a file watcher in "puma" in dev so you no longer need to run
rake autospec to watch for CSS changes
The FallbackLocaleList object tells I18n::Backend::Fallbacks what order the
languages should be attempted in. Because of the translate_accelerator patch,
the SiteSetting.default_locale is *not* guaranteed to be fully loaded after the
server starts, so a call to ensure_loaded! is added after the locale is set for
the current user.
The declarations of config.i18n.fallbacks = true in the environment files were
actually garbage, because the I18n.default_locale was
SiteSetting.default_locale, so there was nothing to fall back to. *derp*
This improves my DOMContentLoaded from 9s+ to less than 4s.
Pinging @SamSaffron on this because this was previously controversial.
This implementation adds the `@sourceURL` directive so chrome correctly
identifies the source files.
see: http://meta.discourse.org/t/enough-with-the-sample-files/10351
Our default sample setup was not minifying css or js causing js and css to be 2.5x larger than it needed
Anyone using my docker setup, please run a new bootstrap. Anyone else, apply diff manually.
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Sam
Jay Pfaffman
Guo Xiang Tan
Régis Hanol
Kane York
Arpit Jalan
Godfrey Chan
Akshay
Claus Strasburger
Stephan Kaag
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