Project

• Drupal8 theming - why we did it
• Plan for the unknown (responsive 2.0 how can we make D8 move forward & not break everything.
• Seven theme & usability improvements in Drupal 8
  • Were you involved with Seven in Drupal 7?
  • What are your thoughts on alternate admin themes like Adminimal?
• CSS architecture in Drupal 8
  • Why BEM?
• Classy & Stable theme
  • Why you should always use a base-theme

Use Cases

• How do the changes affect people who want to create custom themes and base themes?

Questions from Twitter

• Eric J. Gruber
  Everything, really.
• Dragan Eror
  How to remove query string from the end of CSS link, so I can enable browser's live reload? #MUP150 #drupal8
• Eric J. Gruber
  What are some common hooks have changed from D7 to D8 that we need to be aware of?
• Tamás Hajas
  Example about how can the new Stable theme help the work of frontenders. #MUP150
• Tamás Hajas
  Status and future of core themes. #MUP150
• why isnt seven called 8 ;)

Consensus Banana

• How did this all get started? and where does the “banana” come from.
  • From Morten: 2 years ago at BadCamp John Albin was holding a plastic sword from the pirate fest the day before. It was known as the sword of consensus. At DrupalCon Austin Morten had a banana that he was using to point to people and ask “So can we agree on X?”. That is how it became the banana of consensus. It was basically a pointing stick.
• Technically, what is the change.
  • Moving classes from core to a base theme called Classy.
  • Multi-phased approach.
  • Phase 1, move classes out of preprocess functions and into the core templates.
  • Create the Classy base theme.
  • Phase 2, copy the core template with classes to Classy, remove the classes from core.
• Why do themers need this.
  • Better options
  • Not everyone wants the same markup (themer survey)
  • Avoiding php
  • No time wasted undoing core.
• What work has been done, what is left.
  • Preprocess changes (phase 1) far along.
  • Classy is RTBC, waiting for Dries to approve.
  • Phase 2 to start at or just after Amsterdam (don’t need to wait until phase 1 is 100% complete)
• Chance of failure?
  • Changes have to be in by RC1.
• Who to thank?
  • joelpittet, mdrummond, crowdcg, lauriii, alexpott!
• Are there any other theme layer changes to look forward to that have come about because of the banana consensus?
  • addClass/removeClass is in, what about setAttribute/removeAttribute? Similarities to jQuery make this (hopefully) more approachable for frontend developers.
• Any other theming changes not related to banana?
  • Improved menu theming - menu.html.twig using a Twig macro

Use Cases

• What it means for themers. What it means for developers.
  • Preprocess is still there so contrib can add classes if necessary - but is it necessary? Could it be done as a data- attribute?

D8 Theming

• What were the results of the theming survey?
  • People use Sass
  • Themes people are using

Twig

• For anyone who’s been hiding under a rock, quickly explain what Twig is.
• drupaltwig.org

• drupaltwig

• What do you know of that’s going on at DrupalCon Austin?

• slack.com

Frontend United copenhagen 29-31 august
4 weeks before Drupalcon Amsterdam

Questions from Twitter

• Marc Drummond
  You should ask @mortendk if he will write a Viking Edda hailing his love of divs and classes in Drupal's default markup.
• Marek Sotak
  I thought DK in your nickname stands for Denmark, now I know - Morten DivKiller? :D

Kalatheme

• What is Kalatheme?
• Does this play nicely with Panels/Context etc?
• I don’t actually have any experience with Panels In Place Editor. What functionality does that provide the theme?
• What version of Bootstrap are you using?
• Is Sass-ability built in?
• On the Project Page, it says you can use other Bootstrap themes. How does that work?
• You mentioned a subtheme generator. What is that? How does it work?
• Is this a base theme that people should sub-theme? Or can people use it out of the box.
• What are the Drush commands that work with Kalatheme?

Use Cases

• What do you see as the target audience for Kalatheme?
• Do you know of any sites using Kalatheme that we can look at?

NodeSquirrel Ad

Have you heard of/used NodeSquirrel?
Use "StartToGrow" it's a 12-month free upgrade from the Start plan to the Grow plan. So, using it means that the Grow plan will cost $5/month for the first year instead of $10. (10 GB storage on up to 5 sites)

Template Picker

• What is the template picker module?
• Does it support all entities? (nodes/blocks/users/etc.)
  • Core Entities
  • Users
  • Taxonomy Terms
  • Comments
  • Nodes
  • Custom Entities
  • Doesn’t Support ECK (Yet)
• Can you affect the different display types? or just full node?
• How do you create new templates?
• Where do you place the templates?
• Can you set the default template to one of your custom templates?
• Is there any way to affect multiple nodes at once? Or do you set the template individually?
• How would you compare this to Display Suite?
• Damien asked how does it compare to Panelizer?

Questions from Twitter

• Damien McKenna
  How does it compare to #Panelizer? Does it handle revisions yet? #MUP096
• Eric Rasmussen
  Any examples of other modules that have integrated using the template_picker_template_options hook? #MUP096

NodeSquirrel Ad

Have you heard of/used NodeSquirrel?
Use "StartToGrow" it's a 12-month free upgrade from the Start plan to the Grow plan. So, using it means that the Grow plan will cost $5/month for the first year instead of $10. (10 GB storage on up to 5 sites)

Omega 4.x

• Omega 3 vs. Omega 4
  • No Layout Builder UI
  • No predefined breakpoints
  • No dependency on Omega Tools or need for Delta.
• Sass, Compass & SMACSS
• How does this work with Panels?
• Will this be the route going forward for D8?
• BEM class naming Syntax
• Core CSS Cleanup
  • Easier to override
  • Split up stylesheets
• Omega Layouts
• Development tools (Guard / Grunt, LiveReload, etc.)
• Manage assets (exclude CSS/JS, move JS to footer)
• Manage browser compatibility (Chrome Frame, conditional classes, etc.)
• Split up preprocess, process and theme functions
• Drush Integration
  • drush help --filter="omega"
• Ohm

Use Cases

• What prompted the major overhaul?
  • This reminds me of the conversation going on around D8 right now.
  • How long can people keep using 3.x?
• What does this mean for site-builders?
• What does it mean for themers?
• How does Omega 4.x compare to other base themes like AdaptiveTheme and Aurora?
• When should we expect a stable release?

Questions from Twitter

• Dirk Bazuin (@dbazuin): #MUP076 will there be templates made with singularity.gs?
• Kendall Totten (@KendallTotten): Is there a timeline for when we can expect all the Panels integration to be wrapped up in Omega 4.x? It sounds fantastic :) #MUP076

This week the illustrious Earl Miles (@merlinofchaos) of the little known Views, CTools and Panels modules talks with me about his recent project to get Views into core for Drupal 8.

Here's what we talked about

• There has been effort in the past to get views into core. How many times has it been proposed?
• Why didn’t it pan out before?
• What are you doing differently this time?
• Why will it succeed this time when it has failed in the past?
• Who’s on the team and what are their roles?
• What does this mean for experienced Drupal developers/sitebuilders?
• What does this mean for somebody who’s brand new to Drupal, trying it out for the first time?

Questions from Twitter

• Paul Delsignore (@pdelsignore): wow, you got the big guy! ask him if the UI would change in 8, and if there are any expected additions.
• Damien McKenna (@DamienMcKenna): Views 3 adds new widget types vs what D7 includes, will there be consolidation of these so core & Views work the same?
  • Earl: I actually have no idea what this question means.
    • Damien: The drop-down menus e.g. for the Operations menu on Views, vs the individual links on e.g. Context or Panelizer.
• Damien McKenna: Will vdc still have separate modules for the core functionality vs UI, i.e. views.module vs views_ui.module?
• Thomas Lattimore (@tlattimore): Why should views be in core vs contrib?
• Thomas Lattimore: What portions of views are going into core, the API, the UI, all of if?

If you want to get involved and have a hand in getting Views into core for Drupal 8 click the chipin button below!

This week I talk with Gábor Hojtsy about the Multilingual Initiative for Drupal 8.

Questions he answers

• For those who’ve not heard of the Multilingual Initiative, can you tell us what it is and what it will accomplish?
• Is it just a way to translate text on a page? Can’t Google do that?
• What have you accomplished so far?
• How do you manage all these tasks?
• What are the big things still to be worked on?

Greg Dunlap talks about the Configuration Management Initiative (CMI) and how it will improve the dev/staging/production process by moving configuration out of the database, and into files that can be easily moved across sites.

Things he talks about

• What is CMI and what will it do?
• What has it been like being an initiative lead?

Questions from Twitter

• (@DamienMcKenna) Damien McKenna
  Why does he feel the current configuration structure is the best option?
• (@Crell) Larry Garfield
  Are UUIDs and deployment still part of your initiative, or have those fallen by the wayside? Who's picking those up?

Larry Garfield (@Crell), who is the "Web Services and Context Core Initiative Lead", talks to me about WSCCI and how it will fundamentally change the way Drupal's back-end will function in Drupal 8. He starts out by talking about what web services are and how they work, then he talks about how Drupal 8 will incorporate REST and Symfony2 into core. He also gives an idea of how this will (or will not) affect Drupal module developers and site builders.