Custom CSS: grouping

[barryvan (Barry van Oudtshoorn)]

When you look at the list of custom CSS, it’s essentially a long flat list:

I’d like to propose that child themes are indented by ~20px under their parent, so that it’s clear what the relationship is:

Thoughts?

[tophee (Christoph)]

If I understand your request correctly, I had asked for something very similar earlier:

@tophee

So, I’d like to suggest to bring back the asterisk (or some other visual marker) for theme elements that are in use in another theme

and it seems to have been implemented:

Native theme feature feedback, bugs, thoughts, feelings, prayers

yeah I follow, we can add an extra visual cue for “enabled child theme” and improve the UI to give better visibility of parents. this is now fixed btw https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/43e4fc03ef60ea8731f00ecd43e45894bca4d234

but then disappeared again?

[jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld)]

Problem with indenting is that a theme can have multiple parents. Should the child theme appear indented under all of its parent themes? I think that could be confusing.

Personally I’m in favor of some simple indicator (like an icon) that says “hi! I’m a child theme”.

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

@jomaxro

I’m in favor of some simple indicator (like an icon) that says “hi! I’m a child theme”.

Yeah … me too

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

I thought we had the “puzzle piece” metaphor here, indicating that some items in the list are smaller pieces intended to fit into a larger whole.