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    • Twist Theme: Widening the Center column?

    Posted by Maxfield Stewart on Fri 11 of Jan, 2008 02:29 GMT-0000 posts: 17 United States
    Can the center column be widened in the Twist theme? Where would I start? I love the theme, it's just a bit too narrow for some things in TikiWiki 1.10, such as the new admin page.
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    Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee on Fri 11 of Jan, 2008 03:24 GMT-0000 posts: 254 Japan
    Can the center column be widened in the Twist theme? Where would I start? I love the theme, it's just a bit too narrow for some things in TikiWiki 1.10, such as the new admin page.


    twist.css has a TABLE.maintext {WIDTH: 831px} specification, which apparently is what keeps things narrow there. You could try increasing that, but I imagine there could be subsequent adjustments to be made.

    The author of Twist, gg, hasn't been around for quite a while so I assume he probably isn't interested in updating the theme. Because it's popular, though, if he doesn't step in, I wanted to update it for 1.10. At least the new features like fullscreen mode should be added. And since there will be tinkering anyway, it'd be good to make the theme more flexible size-wise.

    About your menu question, Twist has its own mod-application_menu.tpl file, which may be incompatible with 1.10. You could try deleting or renaming templates/twist/modules/mod-application_menu.tpl, to use the default template, and see if that works. (Tiki uses a default set of template files for page layout, etc., but checks for any theme-specific versions. The theme-specific version will be used in place of the default, which gives flexibility to theme designs.)

    -- Gary

    Posted by Maxfield Stewart on Fri 11 of Jan, 2008 04:05 GMT-0000 posts: 17 United States

    Gary,

    Thanks! I discovered all the width parameters in the CSS files and yea, it's a big undertaking. Everything is fixed at 831px. The adjustments would require a more dynamic top bar (that has flexible ends rather than the fixed background image).

    However with a bit of time it could be custom modified, went on my todo list at work.

    As for the menu I noticed this site was using "Application Menu" instead and followed it's lead. The mnu_application_menu module I just removed. I know they aren't the same but it gets me over the hurdle!