Can we go the distance and set a theme for the form and controls use that? or do we have to be specific?

I'm not the best person in explaining this, but I give it another shot:

in the end, all QCubed controls would be compatibel with the jQuery UI templates and thus could use the jQuery UI themes. we include the css once in the page and all of QCubed looks like that theme (icons, buttons, panels, title bar, links, renderwitherror(), tabbed navigation, ...)

To give an example: a developer could download a theme from
http://jqueryui.com/themeroller/ (see galery button) and his app would look like the theme he choose.

So the question is: do we use an existing theme (eg from http://jqueryui.com/themeroller/) and which one, or do we customize it?

K.

I guess we should get some default styling. And it should be possible to change it (eg you change the whole css + image files). Directory structure should allow easy swap. Not that you have to manually copy different files to different folders. Extract everything to one place.

My thought.

this is excactly how we should do it, and how jQuery is doing it.
question was: which one do we take, there are dozens :) but maybe I'm ahead of things, and I should just pick one, eg "start" or "redmond"

K.

Take one. If needed, it's easy to change, because that's how jQuery and we are doing it :)

Yep, just pick one theme and go with it. I don't even think we need to customize the theme, unless something looks outright bad.

Just make sure that when the developer decides to swap it out for another theme, they don't have to touch the files inside any _core folder - otherwise, QCubed upgrade story will suck.

Thanks!!
-Alex

So, what is the process currently for swapping out a jqueryui theme?

Download the theme from jQuery; change the pointer to the theme in your configuration.inc.php file (i think there's just one pointer to a CSS file)