Themeing/Skining Mailman
Hi all,
I was just wondering how easy it is to theme Mailman? I haven’t access to an installation that I can poke around in myself. Is it simple HTML/CSS or is it a more complicated prospect?
Thanks in advance Leo
On 01/20/2016 02:16 PM, Leo Francisco wrote:
I was just wondering how easy it is to theme Mailman? I haven’t access to an installation that I can poke around in myself. Is it simple HTML/CSS or is it a more complicated prospect?
For Mailman 2.1.x (x >=19), see <https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/1409396>.
For Mailman 3, the default web UI uses Django and I think there are standard ways to theme it, but I'm not certain about how. Also, in MM 3, the web UI is separate from the core mail list engine, and it is possible to build your own web UI that communicates with the core via a RESTful API.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Thanks for the info, I will look into what version the group are running. So it isn't really simple essentially?
On 21/01/16 01:35, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 01/20/2016 02:16 PM, Leo Francisco wrote:
I was just wondering how easy it is to theme Mailman? I haven’t access to an installation that I can poke around in myself. Is it simple HTML/CSS or is it a more complicated prospect?
For Mailman 2.1.x (x >=19), see <https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/1409396>.
For Mailman 3, the default web UI uses Django and I think there are standard ways to theme it, but I'm not certain about how. Also, in MM 3, the web UI is separate from the core mail list engine, and it is possible to build your own web UI that communicates with the core via a RESTful API.
On 01/21/2016 09:02 AM, Leo Francisco wrote:
Thanks for the info, I will look into what version the group are running. So it isn't really simple essentially?
I suspect that an existing list is Mailman 2.1. Mailman 3 is still pretty new.
The theming itself is not too difficult depending on what you want to do. Theming the entire UI requires server access, but a few of the user visible pages, i.e. the list's listinfo page, the 'subscribe results' page for a list and the user options page for a list are customizable through the web admin UI.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Yep, that's pretty much what we'd like to do, just a simple re-theme of the sign up page. Thanks Mark for your help.
I'm going to have a mess around it with it.
Leo
On 21/01/16 18:24, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 01/21/2016 09:02 AM, Leo Francisco wrote:
Thanks for the info, I will look into what version the group are running. So it isn't really simple essentially?
I suspect that an existing list is Mailman 2.1. Mailman 3 is still pretty new.
The theming itself is not too difficult depending on what you want to do. Theming the entire UI requires server access, but a few of the user visible pages, i.e. the list's listinfo page, the 'subscribe results' page for a list and the user options page for a list are customizable through the web admin UI.
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