Re: The Boardindex/Frontpage option
Reply #6 –
Well, its a question of where you want Elkarte to go of course.
Mind you though, there's no guarantee that more designers will be interested in making themes(or admins changing their design) even with a new/easier templating system. If it also adds overhead to the script and its own set of problems with that - well, then its better to stick with what you got I would say.
I do believe in making themes/templates OOP though, personally. I did that in Protendo and it was a revelation to be able to override single subtemplate in one single template - or changing every template there...and adding a few of its own too. The theme system in SMF/Elkarte have always been powerful and tempting to utilize fully..but the amount of very different templates is IMHO its biggest weakness. Extracting out common things, as you say, its a way forward no doubt. I got some way in said Protendo, but my skills are limited..so the momentum stopped then.
Either way, Elkarte is more powerful than SMF 2/2.1 now, both in features and themes IMO.