enigma-bbs/docs/art/themes.md

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Themes

ENiGMA½ comes with an advanced theming system allowing system operators to highly customize the look and feel of their boards. A given installation can have as many themes as you like for your users to choose from.

General Information

Themes live in art/themes/. Each theme (and thus it's theme ID) is a directory within the themes directory. The theme itself is simply a collection of art files, and a theme.hjson file that further defines layout, colors & formatting, etc. ENiGMA½ comes with a default theme by Luciano Ayres of Blocktronics called Mystery Skull. This theme is in art/themes/luciano_blocktronics, and thus it's theme ID is luciano_blocktronics.

Theme Sections

Themes are have some important sections to be aware of:

• info: This section describes the theme. You may set the enabled field to false to disable it (Users assigned to this theme fall back to the default set in your config.hjson).
• customization: The beef!

Theme Section: Customization

The customization block in theme.hjson is itself broken up into major parts:

• defaults: Default values to use when this theme is active. These values override system defaults, but can still be overridden themselves in specific areas of your theme.
• menus: The bulk of what you theme in the system will be here. Any menu (that is, anything you find in menu.hjson) can be tweaked.
• prompts: Similar to menus, this file themes prompts found in prompts.hjson.

TODO: More information about theming!

Creating Your Own

⚠️ IMPORTANT! It is recommended you don't make any customisations to the included `luciano_blocktronics' theme. Create your own and make changes to that instead:

1. Copy /art/themes/luciano_blocktronics to art/themes/your_board_theme
2. Update the info block at the top of the theme.hjson file:

    info: {
        name: Awesome Theme
        author: Cool Artist
        group: Sick Group
        enabled: true
    }

3. If desired, you may make this the default system theme in config.hjson via theme.default. theme.preLogin may be set if you want this theme used for pre-authenticated users. Both of these values also accept * if you want the system to radomly pick.

  theme: {
    default: your_board_theme
    preLogin: *
  }