On May 7, 2008, at 7:14 PM, Veda Williams wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Hope you're not exhausted from last round of theming, but it's that  
> time
> again! We need ten themes for this round, to be submitted for  
> testing by May
> 31st. WE NEED SIGNUPS NOW:
>
> http://www.openplans.org/projects/ootb-plone-themes
>
> Official kickoff for this round is May 9th (Friday), just to give a  
> few more
> days for signups. Let me say again: WE REALLY NEED SIGNUPS. Newcomers
> welcome!
>
> Don't forget to re-read the recently updated OOTB project guidelines:
>
> http://www.openplans.org/projects/ootb-plone-themes/documentation-best-pract
> ices-sample-base-theme
>
> And, regarding the theming recipe, since there isn't time to get a
> modification to the paster theming recipe right now, let's just  
> proceed with
> it as is currently stands.
>
> Coming on May 9th as well, mockups for how to highlight themes  
> better on
> plone.org. Stay tuned.
>
> PLEASE SIGN UP! [insert begging and pleading here].

Hello Veda, all :)

So, as my contribution to the second round of themes' development I  
have released the last Plone 3.0 theme from Web Couturier today (as  
usually within my 10% day ;))

The theme is more basic comparing to the first 2 themes, though it has  
some features as well.
But before that - the theme is called webcouturier.city.theme. It's  
been released on pypi. No release on plone.org yet, sorry. But I might  
consider to rename all of the three themes before releasing on  
plone.org. So, just add webcouturier.city.theme to your buildouts to  
test it. You can have a look at the screenshots here - http://www.webcouturier.com/boutique/theme-6

So, about the nice things in the theme you could be interested in your  
themes:
	- moving personal tools from the bar to the portlet. This includes  
creating custom portlet and it's assignment to one of the columns.  
Assignment in this theme has been done in setuphandlers - this is 3.0  
way. but 3.1.1 provides updated way of doing this - through  
portlets.xml. I just didn't have a lot of time to update assignment to  
the most recent technique, though you can have a look at how it is  
done in portlets.xml of CMFPlone;
	- this theme has icons in the portlets' header. You can find out how  
to feed different icons to different portlets, based on portlet's  
class. This is quite a basic thing though ;)
	- maybe somebody will find centering the content with right and left  
margins defined in % interesting. This is one of the things I have  
explained in my last year's Conference talk (http://plone.tv/media/1838007414/view 
)
	- something else in this theme might be interesting but I am not sure  
what exactly :)

In general it's just the theme without any really fancy stuff in it :)

Enjoy!

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