Ability to have multiple HTML override packages about t3 HOT 9 CLOSED

This is a good approach and if this can be adopted it would help tremendously.
Thanks for suggesting.

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Currently, the core theme is put in folder "base" in the plugin. We should provide multiple core theme feature as an addon package of the plugin. IMO, the feature could be implemented as:

1. upload a base theme to folder plugins/system/t3/newbase
2. declare the new base theme in templateDetails.xml

<fieldset name="general_params" label="T3_GENERAL_LABEL" description="T3_GENERAL_DESC">
    <field name="coretheme" type="hidden" default="newbase" />
</fieldset>

How do you think about this approach ?

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The issue is the template overrides.
I think there should be a plugin inside to allow override of overrides or not, when updating the framework.

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The framework provides only default base theme. Developers can provide their own base themes and declare to use it in template. Therefore, when upgrading framework, their work is not lost.

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I like this idea but I guess as soon as folks start adding their own overrides to the plugin then they are technically forking the plugin and potentially need to update each time the install an update for the plugin. There would be a way to not touch the new overrides when installing the plugin but seems better to move the override fiels outside of the plugin all together.

Perhaps we could check the media folder for possible overrides? So these are just folders that get uploaded to media/t3/ and the plugin checks there before it checks the plugin?

Perhaps the priority should be:

1. template
2. media
3. plugin

What do you think?

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I think this approach could work.

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Either approach works for me.

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@locii : the new overrides are not part of T3, therefore it will not be overridden when upgrade the plugin. However, put it in media folder is a good idea. We may allow developers add their own override name so we can have multiple overrides on the same site.

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The feature has been implemented in T3 1.2.0 now. New HTML base is put in media/t3/themes/[name] and declare in templateDetails.xml as:

<t3>
    <base>[name]</base>
</t3>

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