I'm working on a theme that can use 3 or 4 header and preface blocks. Generally, preface blocks can match the content area block styling cutting down on work, while the header block can use any other drupal module enabled styling. Since I'm new to omega, I thought this would be a useful feature to get everything working out the box, instead of having to worry about floats, divs, etc. Is this a reasonable feature request? Thanks Jake.

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himerus’s picture

I'm a little confused on the question here... please correct me if I'm wrong...

Your thought is to have the ability (via drush) when (or possibly immediately following) creating a subtheme via Drush to add regions and also be able to size regions (change header first to grid-8 for example) via drush?

threading_signals’s picture

Title: Additional regions by default usage of drush? » Additional header and preface regions by default?

Sorry about the confusion. I need to edit my posts.

Ok, to clarify, as you know, there's two ways of making a subtheme, one is to copy the starterkit and edit/replace with the new subtheme name, and the other method is to use drush omega-subtheme replacewithnewsubthemenamehere. The correction needed above was that header styling regions does not use block styling, while preface areas do use block styling. I'm using the dynamic display module, and when trying to use the libra theme (which was marked as being updated for this month), I would not like to use the block styling, thus using the preface styling seemed like a better choice of showing slides with only the module css styling. For various business brochure sites, they tend to need three or four blocks for different product categories.

So your reply was better than my feature request. I've been following the section listed here by the way: http://drupal.org/node/171205

What I'm asking for is the ability of the starterkit to have extra regions by default. Omega starter theme currently starts with:

zones[header][] = header_first
zones[header][] = header_second

zones[preface][] = preface_first
zones[preface][] = preface_second
zones[preface][] = preface_third

settings[omega_preface_preface_first_region_prefix] = '' etc.

...but I'm asking for four default header blocks instead of 2 and four default preface blocks instead of 3, due to styling concerns. The link that I marked above seems to be some kind of standard. If it's a drupal standard, then omega possibly needs a revision, due to the "Drupal 7 default regions" section of that page asking for seven default regions, instead of omega's three.

If omega_tools can provide commands to add regions on the fly, that would be a great feature. On Linux distros, the drush commands works fine, but cygwin is another matter, due to my machine's (or cygwin's native install or whatever it could be) rsync configuration, which I need to take time sorting out.

Anyway, perhaps this follow-up comment is enough clarification. Thank you Jake.

Edit: may need to reload, I made some edits on this comment, if reading before 3:15pm est version of this comment.

threading_signals’s picture

Four preface regions with the ability to turn off block styling would be good too. For the header section, perhaps 3 blocks would suffice... Perhaps if I understand Omega better, I can provide better feedback.

threading_signals’s picture

Hi, Jake,

Saw the most recent demo/instruction video on himerus.com

...where you discuss how there is or will be a zone management feature. I was watching on a mobile phone, so I couldn't follow the discussion that well, but I think the feature will allow me to add regions easily. As for the default block styling vs specialized zone css styling configuration options, I am not clear on how to accomplish zone specific theming at this time. Hopefully, enough documentation is available to figure this out. Thanks Jake.

marcoka’s picture

so does that fix your problem?