TracThemeEngine 2.1.1

trac.ini

All configuration options go in the [theme] section.

themeoptional, default: “default”

Theme name to use. Name is case-insensitive.

enable_cssoptional, default: false

Enable or disable the CSS customizations.

color.*optional

Stored values for simple CSS overrides. Note that changing this will not take effect until you save them in the admin panel.

Web interface

Theme

Use the arrows to select your theme from the installed options and then click the button to activate it.

Customize

Here you can further customize your theme by changing colors for certain pieces of the UI. The scheme drop down allows you to load pre-configured color schemes. Note that not all themes will support this, or support the same options.

Customize: Advanced

Here you can customize the CSS even further. As mentioned in the file, if you edit this file by hand, you should not use the simple customizer system or you will lose your changes.

Simple way

The easiest way to make a new theme is to inherit from ThemeBase. A basic example theme is as follows:

from trac.core import *

from themeengine.api import ThemeBase

class ExampleTheme(ThemeBase):
    """A example theme."""

    template = htdocs = css = screenshot = True

The name will be inferred from the class name (“Example” in this case) and the docstring will be used as the description. There are several class variables you can set to configure the theme. By default all of these are set to False and so are disabled. If set to True, each option will use a generally sane default. If set to any value other than those, that value will be used directly.

The available options as follows (all are optional):

templatedefault: $name_theme.html

The filename of the replacement template.

cssdefault: $name.css

Filename for a stylesheet to include.

htdocsdefault: htdocs

Subfolder containing static content.

screenshotdefault: htdocs/screenshot.png

Package-relative path to the screenshot file. File should be 640x400 or use the same aspect ratio.

colors :

Specifiers for simple color customization system. This should be an iterable of tuples of the form (name, property, selector). name will be shown in the customization UI for that entry. property will generally be color or background-color. selector should be a CSS selector string to apply the color rule to.

schemes :

Pre-built color schemes. This should be an iterable of tuples of the form (name, color_dict). The color_dict should be a dictionary mapping color name to hex color string (of the form #00AAFF).

Advanced API

For more advanced control you can implement IThemeProvider from themeengine.api. The interface definition is:

class IThemeProvider(Interface):
    """An interface to provide style information."""

    def get_theme_names():
        """Return an iterable of names."""

    def get_theme_info(name):
        """Return a dict containing 0 or more of the following pairs:

         description::
           A breif description of the theme.
         template::
           The name of the theme template file.
         css::
           The filename of the CSS file.
         htdocs::
           The folder containg the static content.
         screenshot::
           The name of the screenshot file.
         colors::
           A list of (name, css-property, selector) tuples.
         schemes::
           A list of (name, {color-name: value, ...}) tuples.
        """

Most of these are the same as the simple API above, except description is explicit.