How Do I File a New Bug?

In Bugzilla, click on New. Select Dreamwidth Development. In Component, select Style System. Enter a Summary and a Description. Mention style and author(s) in the summary. If you're patching a color theme, add author names and submission URLs to the description. If you're patching a style, mention the style name, the number of themes it has, the name of the default theme, the author's name and the submission URL.

Click on Show Advanced Fields. Set Initial State to IN_PROGRESS and enter your Bugzilla e-mail address in Assign To.

Where Are Style Files?

core2.s2 is in ~/dw/cvs/dw-free/bin/upgrading/s2layers/

Theme and layout .s2 files are in ~/dw/cvs/dw-free/bin/upgrading/s2layers/STYLENAME/ or ~/dw/cvs/dw-nonfree/bin/upgrading/s2layers/STYLENAME/

.pm style files are in ~/dw/cvs/dw-free/cgi-bin/LJ/S2Theme/ or ~/dw/cvs/dw-nonfree/bin/upgrading/s2layers/LAYERNAME/

S2Theme.pm is in ~/dw/cvs/dw-free/cgi-bin/LJ/

S2Theme_local.pm is in ~/dw/cvs/dw-nonfree/cgi-bin/LJ/

s2layers.dat is in ~/dw/cvs/dw-free/bin/upgrading/

s2layers-local.dat is in ~/dw/cvs/dw-nonfree/bin/upgrading/

Dw-free or dw-nonfree?

To be usable on the site, third party images must be obtained from a site which explicitly allows storage on one's own server, commercial use, and use in website templates, or the designer must have acquired a written permission from the image owner and included it in their Contributor Licensing Agreement. If this isn't the case, images must be replaced or removed from the style/theme.

Styles go to dw-nonfree if Dreamwidth can use them but can't redistribute/sublicense them.

Themes go to local files in dw-nonfree if they contain images Dreamwidth can use but can't redistribute/sublicense.

Themes go to local files in dw-nonfree if the base style is already in dw-nonfree. This the case for Transmogrified and Sunday Morning themes.

Adding a New Style

Edit s2layers.dat

If the style goes to dw-nonfree, edit s2layers-local.dat instead.

If this is a new Core2 layout, add:

stylename/layout          layout          core2
stylename/themes          theme+          stylename/layout

If this is a child of Tabula Rasa, add:

stylename/layout          layout(core2base/layout)    core2
stylename/themes          theme+                      stylename/layout

Edit S2Theme.pm

If the default theme goes to dw-nonfree, edit S2Theme_local.pm instead.

Scroll down to %default_themes and add the style and default theme:

layoutname => 'stylename/defaulttheme',

Create STYLENAME.pm

Create STYLENAME.pm in ~/dw/cvs/dw-free/cgi-bin/LJ/S2Theme/ or ~/dw/cvs/dw-nonfree/cgi-bin/LJ/S2Theme/.

Add:

package LJ::S2Theme::layoutname;
use base qw( LJ::S2Theme );
use strict;
 
sub layouts { ( "1" => "one-column", "2l" => "two-columns-left", "2r" => "two-columns-right", "3" => "three-columns-sides", "3r" => "three-columns-right", "3l" => "three-columns-left" ) }
sub layout_prop { "layout_type" }
 
1;

Remove layout options that don't apply to the style.

Create the STYLENAME directory

Create a directory with the name of the style in ~/dw/cvs/dw-free/bin/upgrading/s2layers/ or ~/dw/cvs/dw-nonfree/bin/upgrading/s2layers/.

Create layout.s2

In the directory you've created, create a file named layout.s2. Add:

layerinfo type = "layout";
layerinfo name = "layoutname";
layerinfo redist_uniq = "layoutname/layout";
layerinfo author_name = "someuser";
layerinfo lang = "en";
 
set layout_authors = [ { "name" => "someuser", "type" => "user" } ];

Make sure to respect the designer's wishes concerning capitalization and that layerinfo author_name and layout_authors match.

If the designer doesn't want their name to be displayed as a username, use this instead:

set layout_authors = [ { "name" => "someuser" } ];

If there are resources to credit, add them:

set layout_resources = [ { "name" => "Name", "url" => "http://URL" } ];

Add the style code.

If the style has custom properties, they should be sorted into existing groups (presentation, colors, fonts, images, modules, text, other) by appending _child to the group name. For example:

propgroup images_child
    property string image_module_list { des = "Module list image"; }

If a module has more or fewer available positions than other modules, you can customize the sections it can be set to by using _override. For example:

    property string module_navlinks_section_override {
        values = "none|(none)|header|Header|one|Group One|two|Group Two";
        grouped = 1;
        }
 
set grouped_property_override = { "module_navlinks_section" => "module_navlinks_section_override" };
 
set module_navlinks_section = "header";

Don't forget to make sure it's printed correctly when set to every position, possibly by editing function Page::print() { }.

Create themes.s2

In the directory you've created, create a file named themes.s2.

If some themes go to dw-nonfree, create themes-local.s2 in dw-nonfree as well.

Follow the steps outlined in the next section.

Adding a New Color Theme

Edit themes.s2

If the theme goes to dw-nonfree, edit themes-local.s2 instead.

Make sure the color theme has the right header. As Afuna explained here in dw_dev_training, it should look like this:

#NEWLAYER: layoutname/themename
layerinfo type = "theme";
layerinfo name = "Theme Name";
layerinfo redist_uniq = "layoutname/themename";
layerinfo author_name = "someuser";

If the color theme author is not the style author, add this this line below, separated by a blank line:

set theme_authors = [ { "name" => "someuser", "type" => "user" } ];

Make sure to respect the designer's wishes concerning capitalization and that layerinfo author_name and theme_authors match..

If the designer doesn't want their name to be displayed as a username, use this instead:

set theme_authors = [ { "name" => "someuser" } ];

If there are resources to credit, add them:

set layout_resources = [ { "name" => "Name", "url" => "http://URL" } ];

If there were already resources credited in the style, don't forget to add them again.

If the theme has any images, name them like this: themename_imagename.xxx. Keep the image name used in other themes if there are any.

If there's only one image, give it the theme name: themename.xxx

If the theme has generic images used in other themes, simply use imagename.xxx.

In the theme, use layoutname/themename_imagename.xxx, layoutname/themename.xxx or layoutname/imagename.xxx as the URL.

If you need to add theme-specific CSS, use:

function Page::print_theme_stylesheet() {
    """
    CSS HERE
    """;
}

Make sure to add the theme code in the right place: themes should be alphabetically sorted.

Each theme file must be separated by two blank lines. Leave one blank line after the last theme in the file.

Check and Format your Files

General Rules

No tabs or trailing spaces.

No empty properties.

No hardcoded colors, fonts or text except shadows, :before/:after characters, colors in print_theme_stylesheet() if the designer has used a non-safe combination (color_page_text on color_entry_background instead of color_entry_text on color_entry_background ) or colors which aren't used elsewhere.

No redundant code.

Use shorthand for color codes whenever possible: #555 instead of #555555 and #abc instead of #aabbcc.

Fonts should be capitalized, and single-quoted if there are several words: 'News Gothic MT' instead of news gothic mt.

Sort S2 Properties

Sort properties into categories.

In styles, possible categories are: Presentation, Colors, Fonts, Images, Modules, Text, Links List and Custom CSS in this order.

In themes, possible categories are: Presentation, Page Colors, Entry Colors, Module Colors, Fonts and Images, in this order.

Use headers to separate each category:

##===============================
## Page Colors
##===============================

In themes, properties should be sorted alphabetically within each category, but sometimes logic should prevail. For example, generic properties such as color_page_background go before specific properties such as color_header_background. Look at other themes to keep the same order.

Format CSS

Format CSS to be easily readable and editable. Everything should be properly indented and spaced out, selectors should be listed in the order they're displayed in the source, properties should be alphabetized.

In Styles, also use comment headers to separate sections:

/* Modules
***************************************************************************/
 
.module {
    margin: 2em .5em;
    padding: 2em;
    }

Remove leading zeros from decimals: .5em instead of 0.5em.

Use shorthand whenever possible:

    border: 1px solid $*color_module_border;
    border-top: none;
    list-style: square inside url($*image_list_bullet);
    margin: 2em .5em 1em;

instead of:

    border-bottom: 1px solid $*color_module_border;
    border-left: 1px solid $*color_module_border;
    border-right: 1px solid $*color_module_border;
    list-style-image: url($*image_list_bullet);
    list-style-position: inside;
    list-style-type: square;
    margin-bottom: 1em;
    margin-left: .5em;
    margin-right: .5em;
    margin-top: 2em;

Remove gratuitous specificity such as div.entry instead of .entry. Inserting .DIV and .SPAN when they're not needed makes it harder to override selectors and can cause conflicts or bugs down the line. Compare:

.entry-content {
background: blue;
}
 
div.entry-content {
background: red;
}
 
.entry .entry-content {
background: green;
}
 
div.entry div.entry-content {
background: yellow;
}

Group selectors whenever possible.

Adding New Files to your Patch

Type hg addremove if this patch adds or delete files then hg refresh.

If you're adding images, don't forget to zip them, attach them to your bug and set them to review ? and commit ?.

Test, Test and Test

In Customize, make sure everything is correctly listed and named. For styles, also make sure you can select the page layouts working with your style, and customize your style.

On your test account, check colors on all pages. Don't forget hover and visited links, comment subjects, bottom links, reply boxes and drop-down menus on comment pages, contextual pop-ups, the navigation strip, blockquotes in entries and comments if these have been customized. For styles, also make sure all types of layouts, all pages, all sorts of entries and comments are displayed correctly and do so in various screen resolutions and font sizes. Don't forget to check community journals too.

Preview Pictures

To make preview pictures, you need to take a screenshot of the Recent Pages of your test account. This account needs to have two or three dummy entries with dummy titles and a generic Dreamwidth icon (or the no-userpic default graphic), no navigation strip, and generally few sidebar modules and no footer modules.

It is best if you take your screenshot when your screen is set to a size of 1280x800 pixels as this is the most common resolution used by Dreamwidth users, and your font size set to 14-16 pixels. None of this is mandatory, though.

Screenshots must then be resized to 150x114 pixels. If doing so distorts the image, you need to either edit the original screenshot in a photo editor program or edit your test journal until your screenshot can be resized without any distortion. You may also need to sharpen your image.

Final previews should be color-indexed .PNGs, and should NOT include any color profile.

If you can't do preview pictures mention it on the bug so that someone can do them for you. You can also ask for help at dreamscapes.

A few tips:

Look at the previews for other themes in the same style; this will generally give you a good idea of the modules you should display, the number of entries you should have and how long they should be to get a good-sized screenshot.

Quick ways to get or lose a few more pixels: add or remove text, line breaks, tags and metadata in entries; change the display of tags in the tags module; change your browser's minimum font size; resize the pic to the correct width then crop it to make it the correct height (one or two 'missing' pixels aren't noticeable at this scale).

It might be a good idea to create accounts specifically for making previews --one per style-- so that you don't lose your set-up.

If your photo editor program has scripting functions, you can use them to automate resizing and saving.

Mozilla Firefox has a few extensions to help you generate content, resize your window and take screenshots:

Dummy Lipsum

Web Developer

FireShot

Google Chrome has two handy extensions (probably more) to help with making screenshots:

Window Resizer will make your browser window a specified size. Especially useful, if you set "screen type" to "mobile device" then the content window is made to the specified size. Using 1280x973 will resize to 150x114 nicely.

Screen Capture will take screen shots of the contents of a browser window (Macs, and maybe other OSs, let you screencap a window but it gives you content and menus, which isn't helpful). A bit buggy but does the job.

If you use a Mac or a Linux machine, you can resize, sharpen, strip any color profiles and make sure the final result is an indexed png from the command line with ImageMagick/convert as long as your screenshot is already the right aspect ratio:

convert -resize '150x114' -sharpen 25 +dither -type Palette $inputfilename png8:$outputfilename

You can also make this into a script:

#!/bin/bash
for f in *.png; do
     convert -resize '150' -sharpen 25 +dither -type Palette "$f" png8:"$f"
done

This version also checks if any of the files have already been done (so doesn't do them again) and prints out the names of the files it resizes:

#!/bin/bash

echo "  Creating Dreamwidth previews..."

for f in *.png; do

    w=$(identify -format "%w" "$f")
    h=$(identify -format "%h" "$f")
    t=$(identify -format "%r" "$f")
    c=$(identify -format "%k" "$f")

    if [ $w -ne 150 ] || [ $h -ne 114 ] || [ $t != "PseudoClassRGB" ] || [ $c -gt 256 ]; then 
        echo "    * $f"
        convert -resize '150' -sharpen 25 +dither -type Palette "$f" png8:"$f"
    fi

done

echo "  ... done"

Newbie Guide for People Patching Styles

Contents

How Do I File a New Bug?

Where Are Style Files?

Dw-free or dw-nonfree?

Adding a New Style

Edit s2layers.dat

Edit S2Theme.pm

Create STYLENAME.pm

Create the STYLENAME directory

Create layout.s2

Create themes.s2

Adding a New Color Theme

Edit themes.s2

Check and Format your Files

General Rules

Sort S2 Properties

Format CSS

Adding New Files to your Patch

Test, Test and Test

Preview Pictures

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