344293 - front.png too hard to customize when using multiple instance/single source

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, defect)

Description

[Jim Garrison]

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Currently the "ant" graphic displayed on the front page (front.png) is
loaded as a background image in index.css.  When you have a complete source
directory for each instance this is not a problem.  However, when using the
new "multiple instance/single source" capability, there's no easy way to 
customize the graphic in each instance.  The only way is to make a separate 
CSS for each instance, and then a custom template that refers to the custom
CSS.

It is my humble opinion that the front page graphic is part of the page's
content, not its presentation, and therefore the graphic reference belongs
in the template.  If it were referenced there, it would be trivial to 
customize it per instance since there's already a custom template directory
for each instance.

If there's a really good reason for it to remain in the CSS, then the CSS
architecture needs to be enhanced so that it is governed by the multiple-
instance paradigm in the same way as the templates are.

I debated whether to make this an enhancement or a normal-priority bug.
Since I believe this is an unintended consequence of the multiple-instance
changes, I'm making it a bug, but am open to reclassifying it as an 
enhancement request.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

We can reclassify ourselves. :)

Comment 2

[:glob ✱]

it's implemented as a css background image to allow css skins to easily change it.

Comment 3

[Marc Schumann [:Wurblzap]]

I'd say it should work if you replace <div class="intro"></div> by an <img> tag (or something) in the instance's custom index.html.tmpl...

Comment 4

[Frédéric Buclin]

front.png is gone since Bugzilla 3.4.