SUNScholar/XMLUI Theme/Tutorial

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Overview

Official Help

View the following for official DSpace Manakin help.

• https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Manakin+theme+tutorial
• https://wiki.duraspace.org/label/DSPACE/manakinhowto

View the following for a better understanding of XMLUI Mirage theme design using the "modules" overlay method:

• http://www.slideshare.net/tdonohue/making-dspace-xmlui-your-own

Development Tools

A new feature in DSpace 1.5 is the ability to try out different themes on a particular page without having to mess with the xmlui.xconf file or needing to restart Tomcat. Two things need to be done in order to apply a theme to any page you are currently looking at.

1. The following setting in dspace.cfg must be set to true: xmlui.theme.allowoverrides=true
2. The "themepath" value should be appended to the end of the url, i.e.

http://<manakin-url>/search?themepath=Theme1/ or http://<manakin-url>/search?themepath=CompundTheme/SubTheme1/ Processing an external XML document

Theme Repository

Check out the following theme repositories.

• http://web.lib.sun.ac.za/style/sunscholar/theme :- DS32 = DSpace 3.2, DS182 = DSpace 1.8.2, DS172 = DSpace 1.7.2
• https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Repository+of+XMLUI+themes

References

• http://www.slideshare.net/bramluyten/dspace-3-xml
• https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Manakin+theme+tutorial
• https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/XMLUI+How+To+Guides
• https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/TechnicalFaq#TechnicalFaq-HowdoIremovethesearchboxfromthefrontpageinXMLUI
• https://wiki.duraspace.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=19006388
• https://wiki.duraspace.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=19006130
• http://design.ubuntu.com/assets/colour-palette
• http://design.ubuntu.com/assets/ubuntu-font-family