No one will compile every change they make while developing with chrome developertool open and then go to backend and press less > css every time they want a change. You want to compile when done editing all less files. But I know you know that and that you probably misunderstood me. 🙂
What only does work is to make a change in the local template.less. The compiler only then recognizes that there is a difference in that file. But it’s a pain in the ass that I first have to change that template.less file (place a white space somewhere since that is a change in code), since I of course test style differences with chrome dev tool where the code would be placed in the @imported less file and not in the template.less file. The whole idea here is that I can copy the @import less files to another project, add a template.less with only @import and voila… done! Instead of having to scrub through all the lines of code to find those big commented parts.
The reason I would love to do it like this is that I want a fundament implementation method of own module styles to manage them. I want to make hundreds of different styles based on Uber. For now I do not know how to do that other then the way I discribe below.
The way I work like this is because my next explanation is the only way which works probably:
-IF and only IF I need a change in the php code of the acm module because I want to get rid of several functions, I goto template/uber/acm/[modulenamefolder] and copy paste a php and xml style and rename them to style-custom.xml and style-custom.php. (Can I also copy and rename the corresponding less file and update it somewhere in the style-custom.php file? ). anyway… Then edit them and upload them back. Then go into the backend Joomla module and press advanced lightning icon and change the [style-1] for instance to [style-custom]. If I could have the ACM folder to work locally!! that would be AWSOME!! For instance make my own ACM module overrides in the local folder with LESS! (not css).
I’m thinking of building my own structure with compass and scss since that CAN compile @import.
I would really like to learn more/assist Joomlart in the development of a template framework that could be easily manipulated in a way to have a good fundament of choices like UBER does, but with a easy method of distributing own adjustments on acm and it’s style.
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