Sorting of themes in the dropdown in theme editor page?

[Mihir Sambhus <mi...@gmail.com>]

Hi, 

I have been wondering what sort order is used to display the themes in the 
theme selection dropdown in the themeeditor. 

I have created more than 50 themes on my site and it is really hard to 
navigate through the themes, and I am looking for an easy way to present to 
the end users to select the themes. 
It doesnt seem like it is alphabetically sorted. Neither is it sorted based 
on which theme was touched the last. It looks more like it is sorted based 
on when I created the theme. 

My questions: 
- what is the current sort order to display this list? 
- is it possible for me to change this list in my installation without 
changing code? 
- Are there plans to enhance the theme editor page to change from the 
dropdown to say a radio box with a small thumbnail preview? If not, how 
tough/easy would it be for me to change this implementation to get it the 
way I mentioned above? 

thanks and regards, 
Mihir
http://weblog.sambhus.com

Re: Sorting of themes in the dropdown in theme editor page?

[Lance Lavandowska <la...@gmail.com>]

I don't think we apply any sorting to the list, so it sorts
"naturally" according to the Collection used.  Without looking I'm
going to guess its an ArrayList, which merely sorts by order of
insertion: so whatever order File.list() returns would be the order
(alphabetically on my Windows system).

Lance

On 6/22/05, Mihir Sambhus <mi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been wondering what sort order is used to display the themes in the
> theme selection dropdown in the themeeditor.
> 
> I have created more than 50 themes on my site and it is really hard to
> navigate through the themes, and I am looking for an easy way to present to
> the end users to select the themes.
> It doesnt seem like it is alphabetically sorted. Neither is it sorted based
> on which theme was touched the last. It looks more like it is sorted based
> on when I created the theme.
> 
> My questions:
> - what is the current sort order to display this list?
> - is it possible for me to change this list in my installation without
> changing code?
> - Are there plans to enhance the theme editor page to change from the
> dropdown to say a radio box with a small thumbnail preview? If not, how
> tough/easy would it be for me to change this implementation to get it the
> way I mentioned above?
> 
> thanks and regards,
> Mihir
> http://weblog.sambhus.com
> 
>

Re: Sorting of themes in the dropdown in theme editor page?

[Allen Gilliland <Al...@Sun.COM>]

as far as i know there is no sort order to the themes list, i believe it 
is just the order in which the filesystem lists the directories under 
"/themes".  i am planning to do a full upgrade of the theme management 
code for the next release, so i'll put this on the TODO list.

-- Allen


Mihir Sambhus wrote:

>Hi, 
>
>I have been wondering what sort order is used to display the themes in the 
>theme selection dropdown in the themeeditor. 
>
>I have created more than 50 themes on my site and it is really hard to 
>navigate through the themes, and I am looking for an easy way to present to 
>the end users to select the themes. 
>It doesnt seem like it is alphabetically sorted. Neither is it sorted based 
>on which theme was touched the last. It looks more like it is sorted based 
>on when I created the theme. 
>
>My questions: 
>- what is the current sort order to display this list? 
>- is it possible for me to change this list in my installation without 
>changing code? 
>- Are there plans to enhance the theme editor page to change from the 
>dropdown to say a radio box with a small thumbnail preview? If not, how 
>tough/easy would it be for me to change this implementation to get it the 
>way I mentioned above? 
>
>thanks and regards, 
>Mihir
>http://weblog.sambhus.com
>
>  
>