Where should themes be stored by default?

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Themes for the frontal presentation app

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Where should themes be stored by default? #1

Closed ff6347 closed 8 years ago

ff6347 commented 8 years ago

I would suggest having a folder in the the user home directory

~/.frontal/themes

with

git clone git@github.com:sebastian-meier/frontal-theme-example.git ~/.frontal/themes/example

everyone could store themes there. A bit like grunt-init

This would also allow storing config files there.

~/.frontal/config.json

sebastian-meier commented 8 years ago

Yepp this was also my first thought, maybe we could do it like processing, initially create a frontal-folder and if the user does not like to spam the user-directory she can choose another destination and move stuff...

For configs i though about using the standard user-app-path (library/application support/FRONTAL)... i think it depends if we want users to edit the config file by hand. so far i only have

theme folder
current theme
last presentation

as variables in the config, which can all three be modified through the interface...

ff6347 commented 8 years ago

As discussed today I'm a fan of a manged folder by frontal called

~/.frontal

It could contain themes, settings.json, other things. So a backup of .dotfiles would manage this folder as well. The application support is also a possibility but makes three paths

*nix --> home win --> Documents osx --> Library/Application Supprt

when using a

~/.frontal we can do *nix and osx the same way

sebastian-meier commented 8 years ago

Agreed.

A. As a temporary solution we keep a folder at location X (defined by user)

B. Target is a ~/.frontal folder managed through FRONTAL Which means we need:

Add Theme to folder
Remove Theme from folder
Update Theme manually or via repo
Clone Theme from repo
Detecting possible duplicates (replace / rename)

ff6347 commented 8 years ago

Right. As discussed management will be a later feature.