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Download Fruity - a Drupal admin theme
Fruity is free (GPL) and designed to be used as a admin theme specificly. Fruity is a clean and standards compliant Drupal 5 theme.
Included are some instructions to help you make the theme work the way we intended. We also recommend the use of a relatively small module (see the instructions) to make Drupal 5 use the admin theme for pages like log in, register, reset password and create/edit content. (In Drupal 6, this bit of functionality is available out-of-the-box.)
Our goal with Fruity was to have a usable and slightly better-looking alternative to Garland. It has been tested on Firefox, IE7 (not IE6), Opera, Safari and Chrome and also with popular modules like CCK and Views.
Here are some things on our wishlist for future versions:
- use icons, where necessary
- make certain buttons look more like actual “buttons” instead of regular text links (e.g. add, edit, delete)
- improve the menu structure
- enable theme settings, make things more configurable
- support the color module
- port to drupal 6
Take it out for a spin, we’d love to hear what you think!
(We are also in the process of adding the theme to drupal.org.)
I’d like to take it for a spin but the download link seems broken…
Looks promising!
Right… it works now ;)
Looks promising indeed :)
If I may make a suggestion, I found myself missing the breadcrumb links, which are useful if you want to go back to a previous section.
It is already a big step, cant wait to see how it ends up !
Greetings from Barcelona :D
Manuel,
The breadcrumb links are in the yellow bar, above the page title. They don’t really look like links but they are definitely clickable. Perhaps we should’ve underlined them or something. I’ll certainly have another look at it.
Thanks for your comment!
Wow! a wonderful admin-theme. very clean (almost swiss ;-)) and really, really attractive. I’m definitely going to use it in my own site.
I’ve got one question as a beginning drupal-developer, though. The admin sidebar that you talk about in your instruction, is it one you defined in your template.php? or should it be present at installing the module?
Hi Daan,
Thanks for the kind words! I’m glad you like it.
About the admin sidebar: it is indeed a region, defined in Fruity’s template.php. We could’ve used a name like “sidebar” or “sidebar right” just as well, but in this case I chose “admin sidebar” for extra clarity. Hopefully that makes any sense ;)
I think the theme looks amazing… PLEASE do a Drupal 6 version! :)
what a great looking theme! I’ve got it installed, but for some reason, the “admin sidebar” isn’t showing up as an option when i go to configure the blocks. any thoughts?
@Ian:
The Drupal 6 version will be released soon. It’s almost finished.
@Owen:
Are you using Drupal 5? I don’t really have a clue what the problem could be. Note that the “admin sidebar” is a region, not a block.
@maarten figured it out. i activated the theme prematurely (before i had set up the menus). went back and re-installed and it worked like a champ. thx!
The drupal 6-dev is now available from
http://drupal.org/project/fruity
Looks great! i like clean templates.