Theme editor for RAP

Project Lead: Benjamin Muskalla (IRC: benny`work)

Mentor: Rüdiger Herrmann

This project is part of the Google Summer of Code 2010

Abstract

The theming infrastructure of RAP experienced several enhancements over the past two release cycles. Currently users of RAP have to struggle with the CSS-based theme files with a simple text editor in order to create sophisticated themes. The editor should support general features like content assist for elements, selectors and states. In addition, more advanced features as a quick outline or custom widget integration should be part of the editor.

Primary goals

Legend

Needs some investigation/research

Work in progress

Bug fixed (CVS / Builds)

Source Highlighting

Preferences for Source Highlighting

Content Assist baked by *.theme.xml files (Selectors, states, properties, etc)

Dynamic hover of overriden rules

Quick Rule hierarchy

Quick outline

Rename Variant refactoring

Duplicate warnings

Templates

Problem markers and errors for css files

Outline support

Quick navigation (F3) for certain keywords (eg Button -> Button.default.css)

Comment / Uncomment blocks

Rule folding

Support for themeable widgets

Timeline

Here is a complete list of the milestones and release candidates planned for this plugin.

Milestone	Date	Planned items
M1	May 5	Infrastructure (initial import, CI with CBI, p2 repo, backlog triage)
M2	May 26	TBD
M3	June 21	TBD
M4	July 3	TBD
M5	July 17	TBD
RC1	August 2	TBD
Pencils down	August 10	-

Community Involvement

Getting the source

The theme editor will be developed as part of the official RAP tooling. See the RAP CVS page for more informations.

Open issues

To see all the open issues and feature requests of this project, take a look at this query.

New ideas

Do you have a great idea for the refactoring? Just open a new feature request.