Talk:Using images in a theme
Just had a quick browse through this, I have not tested this but are there file extensions missing in the examples?
e.g. -
body {background-image:url(gradient);}
shouldn't this read -
body {background-image:url(gradient.png);}
--Matthew Cannings
No. It is intentional.
It is not really important for theme images. After all, if you are making a theme, you probably do know what type your images are. However, suppose in your theme you want to override one of the standard icons, for example i/edit. Well, even though the standard images is i/edit.gif, you might want to replace it with i/edit.png in your theme, and you can, and Moodle will find the image as long as it is one of the supported formats. We use the same basic system for all images (theme, core and plugin) so that is why you must not specify the extension when you link to the image, and you can use any format you like.--Tim Hunt 18:50, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
These documents are essentially for developers, but is there going to be a plainer version for us who do not speak the necessary jargon? I have been trying to figure out how to explain this in the Front Page FAQ to provide people looking at Moodle 2.0 with a hope of including their own logos onto their selected themes. Seriously, I do not have either the time or the patience to learn PHP to the point where I might be able to explain it in a non-technical manner. From what I am able to decipher, it might be easier than earlier versions, but I cannot be sure. --Colin Fraser 09:02, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
