Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] docs: allow selecting a Sphinx theme

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>]

Em Mon, 06 Dec 2021 12:12:12 -0700
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> escreveu:

> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> writes:
> 
> > Instead of having RTD as an almost mandatory theme, allow the
> > user to select other themes via a THEMES environment var.
> >
> > There's a catch, though: as the current theme override logic is
> > dependent of the RTD theme, we need to move the code which
> > adds the CSS overrides to be inside the RTD theme logic.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
> > ---
> >
> > See [PATCH v3 0/4] at: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1638369365.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org/
> >
> >  Documentation/Makefile             |  3 ++
> >  Documentation/conf.py              | 52 +++++++++++++++++-------------
> >  Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst |  8 +++++
> >  3 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)  
> 
> So I'm playing with this now, and definitely want to apply it.  I do
> have one little worry, though...  THEME seems like an overly general
> name to use here, and seems relatively likely to conflict with other
> uses.  THEME= on the command line is fine, but what do you think about
> something like DOCS_THEME for the environment variable?  Or even
> HTML_THEME as Sphinx uses?

I'm not sure if we will ever consider a "THEME" environment var for anything
but docs and html stuff. That's why I ended taking the shortest name (for
both THEME and CSS make vars).

Yet, I'm OK if to use whatever name you think it would work best.

Btw, while I didn't actually test, maybe those would also apply to epub,
so, just in case, I guess DOCS_THEME would be preferable, IMO.

Thanks,
Mauro