X-Git-Url: http://git.zarb.org/?p=booh;a=blobdiff_plain;f=THEMES;h=c7917b569905e93c5dd31a4eb5cfb33f4c064d13;hp=27114b71f4aff9e1a4476cd21c773c6a35d35b12;hb=d80d9bcb959141176970570088b28c02155dc018;hpb=d46bae502d8c5ce3be3aa13cd531c1f70cfdbc13

diff --git a/THEMES b/THEMES
index 27114b7..c7917b5 100644
--- a/THEMES
+++ b/THEMES
@@ -11,7 +11,12 @@ Each theme is made of:
 - one image.html skeleton, used for fullscreen images
 
 - any number of resource files these html pages depend on
-  (images, css..)
+  (images, css..), normally they should all go in the 'root'
+  subdirectory, so that they are only copied in the root
+  directory of the final webalbum and avoid wasting too much
+  hosting space; they can be referred from the skeleton by
+  prepending ~~pathtobase~~, which will be the relative path
+  to the root directory of the final webalbum
 
 - a metadata/parameters.rb file holding information about images
   sizes that will fit the best the html pages layout
@@ -19,6 +24,16 @@ Each theme is made of:
 - three metadata/screenshot-?.png files used to select theme in
   the GUI
 
+If you want to create a new theme, or make local modifications to a
+theme, just have them in your ~/.booh-themes directory. For example,
+to hack off "dark":
+
+# mkdir ~/.booh-themes
+# cp -a /usr/share/booh/themes/dark ~/.booh-themes/mine
+
+Use a different name than original theme names (here I picked the
+dummy name "mine", choose a better one).
+
 
                   [[ Skeleton files ]]
 
@@ -79,4 +94,3 @@ of width (thus 124 of height).
 It would be best if the screenshots would show the same contents,
 so just send me your theme if you create a new one and I'll do
 the screenshots.
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