[Typo3-dev] new standard templates

[Stephane Schitter]

Selon Kasper Skårhøj <kasper at typo3.com>:
> Some comments:
> - Rene Fritz once introduced an examples of standard templates
> distributed as extensions (tmpl_green or something)
> - I'm currently planning to move the current 11 standard templates into
> a new extension which will contain all the "old" CMS stuff in TYPO3; I
> believe in the biblical principle that you should pour new wine on new
> leather bags - so lets not try to fix the old stuff, rahter leave it be
> (still working of course) but create something brand new and up-to-date!


Hello,

This sunday I spent a few hours trying to move all the 12 (I counted 12...)
templates into a single "default_static_templates" extension, documenting the
process on the way. This worked reasonably well except a few glitches which I
need to fix.

So here is a quick description of what I have:
each default template has its own directory in the extension. That contains the
static definitions (constants, setup, include_static), tstemplate configuration
editor data (screenshots), and all related files (pictures, bullets, buttons,
static html files used by the templates, ...).

I tested them to be working same as old extensions.

Questions:
1. is it worthwile I finish this work off, and publish it
2. the key "default_static_templates" is a bit long, any proposals for a shorter
name ?
3. Can we drop the "compatibility-3.5" fixes and defined the minimum Typo3
version requirement of 3.6 for these template extensions to work ?

Next bit I would like to do is to write a quick manual (from my notes) on
creating such a template extension, and start building one new one that should
hopefully start a series of new templates.

Cheers,
Stephane

P.S. If that work was redundant with someone else's, it is not wasted time for
me as I learnt a few things while doing that.