Thinking about a Moodle flexitheme
I’m thinking that the mobile/contextual theme I’ve been developing at work could be the starting point for some pretty amazing improvements.
The number one problem I always have when developing stuff for Moodle is that people want to squeeze things in where they don’t “belong” according to the Moodle design (afaict). In the COVCELL project this meant hacking the weblib.php file to squeeze our presence block into the standard header, in the grapple project it means doing something similar or not having the indicators/reflection-amplifiers displayed in the most important contexts (resources).
Now I am hacking a rating/annotating feature rather boorishly into the contextualized theme I have been working on before, so as to easily display the mechanics for this on every page. Now I ask myself, why don’t I just design a generic plugin-interface so that my theme can display certain blocks on the resource page, if the block has … a certain php method, or a certain configuraton option set?
Any ideas?
P.S.
I know Moodle supports displaying course blocks on resource pages, but as far as I’ve seen it displays all of them then, which is not what we had in mind.
