Projects - Themes Used

BINS
bk2site
GThumb
Netenv
Pyblosxom

This page contains my customized themes for different software packages that I use in the making of this website.

To browse them, go to /static/dist/themes/.

BINS

URL: http://bins.sautret.org/

BINS is a nice way to publish a static photo album. It has a wonderful amount of options that can be specified, and its default themes are good enough that I was enticed to use the program. The nice thing is that I can regenerate all of my albums in a scriptable way. It allows for multiple views of the same album, depending on whether you like lists or scattered albums.

My theme is available at /static/dist/themes/bins-mwolson.tar.gz. It aims at XHTML 1.0 compliance as much as possible.

bk2site

URL: http://bk2site.sourceforge.net/

I use this package to publish my Bookmarks. Unfortunately, it generates HTML 4.1 code, and I prefer XHTML 1.1. To remedy this, I submitted a patch to the Debian Bug-Tracking System, but I have not heard any results of this.

I made my templates available on this site at /static/dist/themes/bk 2site-mwolson.tar.gz.

GThumb

URL: http://gthumb.sourceforge.net/

For a while, I used this to publish my image albums. I could not run it from a command prompt, and the process to publish each individual album was tedious. Nonetheless, I am making my theme available at /static/dist/themes/gthumb-neatmike.tar.gz. Here is a list of improvements that need to (IMHO) be made to it.

Smarter guessing of what directory I want to output the album to
A field in the Web Gallery section that allows one to specify the page "above" the current web album.
Ability to make commandline scripts to update the galleries
Put the Thumbnail Caption and Image Caption buttons on the Web Gallery form, not the Theme subform
Be smart about whether to include the caption or the filename in the album page; if the caption exists, show it, otherwise show the filename
Don't force me to highlight every single picture in the directory before allowing me to generate an album; it should be assumed that if no files are selected, publish the current directory

Netenv

URL: http://netenv.sourceforge.net/

I use this to be able to manually choose a different network environment depending on my location. I basically just use it for its menus, since I created a nice setup script to handle most of the details for me.

My configuration is available on this site at /static/dist/themes/netenv-mwolson.tar.gz.