Hi, Everyone,
I ended up applying latest changeset (11247), and it appears that the style diretory of Galaxy has changed a bit (it looks like the new Makefile under the style directory implements grunt). So, I installed npm, and ran nmp install, installed grunt-cli, and got everything to build without an error (i.e. make ran and reported 'Done, without errors').
So, it looks like I might actually have this working. At least I was able to get grunt to build a base.css. So,perhaps I will not need help after all. I'll mess around with this a little bit and message the list again if I need further assistance. Thank you so much for taking the time to read my post.
Dan Sullivan
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Daniel Patrick Sullivan < dansullivan@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, Galaxy Developers,
I have searched the wiki and the mailing list and I can't seem to find an answer to this question (if there is a wiki page or a post that I missed, I apologize). Presumably there is a preferred way to do what I'm trying to do.
I basically want to make some small cosmetic changes to Galaxy's CSS styling (base.css). These are very minor, and all involve overriding existing styles. I've successfully done this by copying the 'blue' theme, making my changes, and re-routing this though apache's redirect, for example:
RewriteRule ^/static/style/(.*) /group/galaxy_test/galaxy-dist/static/MyCustom/$1
This is all find and good. It works. The problem is when I update galaxy. Things get kind of stagnant and changes from the repository are not propaged into my custom style.
I noticed that there appear to be some theme generation script capabilities in galaxy-dist/static/style, for example make_style.py. There also appears to be some color stub ini file (blue_colors.ini). Whenever I try to launch make_style.py, it bombs out with:
"NOTE: This script is no longer used for generating stylesheets" Invoking 'make INI=blue_colors.ini OUT=blue' instead.
The execution of the referred to command fails with a parse errors on base.less and reset.less.
So, I guess my question is:
Is there a preferred method to override existing styling in base.css (of the blue template) such that modifications to the default style are merged in from Mercurial?
I appreciate you taking the time to answer my question. Thank you so much I wish you a wonderful day.
Dan Sullivan