IPB, PhpBB, VBulletin, SMF, PunBB theme on Vanilla?

Polo

I love the design of Vanilla. But, I wonder if it would be easy to make a Vanilla theme or style that looked more like a traditional forum such as IPB, PhpBB, VBulletin, SMF or PunBB. This could be something others can change in their forum preferences. Maybe even a port on the default theme on those forums. How easy is it to do this? Is the theme system so flexible?

Minisweeper

Unfortunately themes arent possible on a per-user basis as they can change the forum so much as to restrict certain functions/etc from working and cause conflicts with extensions. Jazzman made a tabled theme which does look more like a traditional forum, and I believe it was even designed so that punBB stylesheets would work with it. Then ofcourse styles are changeable on a per user basis assuming you have the custom styles extension installed. Hope that helps.

Polo

Okey. How to use the default PunBB theme on the Tabled theme?

Minisweeper

That I'm not sure. I'm guessing you can get stylesheets for punBB so just upload them to the styles directory of the tabled theme and select it in the themes/styles settings page?

Polo

Nope I tried that. Didn't work.

Minisweeper

Hmm. Well I've never tried it myself but I'm sure that was a major idea behind the design of the tabled theme. I guess jazzman or someone who uses it would be the one to ask. He's a bit scarce these days though. Maybe try dropping him an email?

WallPhone

My two styles are written to appear more like *bb boards, you may want to check them out:

Polo

Nice ones Wallphone. Al thought still not the "BB" look. :)