Theme Support

[ispyhumanfly]

Discussed in #23

^{Originally posted by christianvozar October 11, 2018}

Overview

Themes/Menu Sets/Skins for BBS development has always been cumbersome for artists, typically not programmers, to create and distribute for general sysop use. Sysops should feel if a theme is distributed they can install it with appropriate license/permission to do so; Artists should feel a theme will be displayed unaltered (no art modifications, stripping of artist name).

Proposal

Container format for themes for IQ3. Simple compressed file (.zip), Manifest of contained artwork, artist name, group name, version, theme name, theme description (possibly as .json or .yaml). Optional file_id.diz can be included for thumbnail reference when released in a repo.

IQ3 should perform validation on theme pack to ensure required art is included prior to install/use by sysop.