Themes

From Jade

Jade has internal built in support for creating custom "Themes" for itself. They can be created and installed without advanced knowledge. For a quick tutorial visit Creating a Theme. This article may be referenced as a directory, the theme directory in the installation directory holds the user theme data.

Contents 1 General Information 1.1 Theme CSS 1.2 Theme Folder 1.3 Installing a Theme 2 Common Theme File Structure 3 List of User Created Theme Pages

[edit] General Information

A "Theme" refers to a package of objects that tell an application how it can appear, for instance if you use Mozilla Firefox you may note that it uses themes to style its browser. Another example is the ability to change the theme colors for Windows 7. A Jade Theme is a file structure which contains enough information to change the appearance of the Jade application from its default.

Jade themes are stored in a "Theme" folder inside the installation directory and are used to tell Jade how to appear. A Jade Theme uses an EGT SmartSense File to specify the Collective Information such as Author Name, Author Site, the name of the main css file, etc.. and a main CSS file. In most cases this file is titled main.css. Also included may be a series of images either inside directories or within the Theme Folder

[edit] Theme CSS

Jade uses most of the CSS commands and follows the standard CSS file structure to define objects and to change the objects attributes. You may note, that there is no officially supported way to change the Layout or Wireframe of Jade. If you wish to do so you must use a position attribute.

[edit] Theme Folder

A theme folder is the folder inside the installation directory and theme folder of Jade. A Jade theme folder is commonly compressed when sharing a theme.

[edit] Installing a Theme

Installing a Jade theme is simple, copy and paste the Theme Folder into the [[installation directory]/theme folder. Then navigate to the root of the installation directory and change the config.pref file to reference the appropriate CSS file of your theme.

[edit] Common Theme File Structure

Showing required files only.

Root

1. Images
   1. preview.png
2. jade.theme.egt
3. main.css
4. pallete.png

[edit] List of User Created Theme Pages

Jade Theme by Justin Kazmierczak

Feel free to add, will move to other page when the list grows too big.