jake at elsif
Nov 16, 2009, 11:52 AM
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Re: Question about changing the look and feel of RT
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This works perfectly.
You da man.
Funny, I would've assumed the cache info was removed upon Apache
restart...
Thanks,
-jake
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> elsif wrote:
>> RT 3.8.5 on FreeBSD-6.2 using Apache 2.2.6 using mason_handler.fcgi
>>
>> I can not figure out how to change the color scheme of RT to be red instead
>> of blue.
>>
>> I've Googled the hell out of the issue and have yet to come to a solution.
>>
>> I've found and replaced:
>> /opt/rt3/share/html/NoAuth/css/web2/images/source/background-gradient.png
>
> Not using the FreeBSD ports then...
>
>> ...with my own, which results in the top menu bar "RT at a glance" + "New
>> ticket in" toolbar is now red.
>>
>> The rest of the page remains blue.
>>
>> I've tried changing multiple color entries in multiple .css files, but have
>> yet to find the one that works.
>>
>> My HTML source refers to:
>> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/NoAuth/css/web2/main-squished.css"
>> type="text/css" media="all" />
>>
>> ...but I have no main-squished.css anywhere. I've tried changing settings
>> in /opt/rt3/share/html/NoAuth/css/web2/main.css, but have yet to find the
>> right one.
>>
>> The worst part about this is that I know I've found the answer to this
>> years ago in what was probably RT 3.0.x ro 3.1.x...and I know the answer
>> must be out there somewhere, but just can't find it...
>>
>> If anyone can provide me guidance here, I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> You should follow the 'cleanly customize' concepts, which means creating
> a parallel directory tree under /opt/rt3/local/html (I think. It might be
> just /opt/rt3/local) [It's /usr/local/www/rt38 if you use the ports layout.]
>
> Under there create a directory tree like so:
>
> mkdir -p NoAuth/css/web2/images/source
>
> Your replacement background gradient (an 800x2 pixel PNG image) goes into:
>
> NoAuth/css/web2/images/source/background-gradient.png
>
> Then you need to copy the original layout.css from
> /opt/rt3/html/NoAuth/css/web2
> into your new locally modified tree:
>
> NoAuth/css/web2/layout.css
>
> Edit this file to change the background colour to match the bottom end of
> your
> gradient file -- look for this section close to the top of the file and
> change as
> indicated:
>
> body {
>
>
> padding:0;
> margin:0;
>
> background: #a2a2a2
> url(<%RT->Config->Get('WebPath')%>/NoAuth/css/web2/images/background-gradient.png)
> top left repeat-x ;
> ^^^^^^^^
> font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
>
> }
>
> Here I've changed the original blue colour (#547CCC) to a fairly light grey
> (#a2a2a2)
>
> Finally you need to copy .../NoAuth/css/web2/images/dhandler unchanged into
> the
> equivalent position in your new local tree. Clear the mason cache and
> restart apache. You should now have a customized background gradient.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
>
> --
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>
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