Lack of interest Rethought of Path To Images

[Junior]

By default path to images is styles/default, I'm suggesting it be styles/default/xenforo

Reason:
While creating a new theme (we'll call the theme bob), if I change the path to images to /bob/, all current images of xenforo will try to connect them to /bob/xenforo since @imagepath/xenforo/ is what all image paths are currently inside tempalates.

Why it's a problem:
If a skin developer starts creating a custom style and adds a custom image they will have to do the following with the way xenforo is currently set up: /styles/bob/gradient/mygradient.png. If someone using the template renames the template folder, they will have to go and find all my image paths and rename them.

Solution:
Set path to images to be styles/default/xenforo and change the imagepaths of all images by default to exclude the /xenforo/

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Of course I can manually do this every time I create an xenforo theme but it would be a lot less time consuming if it was already done.

Optionally (if it doesn't already exists) @templatepath. @templatepath won't pull the image path but will instead know what template is selected and where it is saved. If this is already avaialble

 

[Paul B]

I have a /images directory in my styles directory at the same heirarchy as the xenforo directory and I have css created as e.g. @imagePath/images/image.png

With this change, I would then have to move my directory to inside the xenforo directory.

I didn't really understand the point as to why it needs to change - I'll re-read your post.

 

[Junior]

Hey Brogan

Seems like a simple enough fix. I suppose my suggestion would work for people who install styles directly into the styles directory, but not for people who install styles inside the default directory.