Installing a theme

Redmine themes are based on CSS and often come with images. Sometimes, they can also include JavaScript code. But, generally, Redmine's support for theming is very basic. Nevertheless, this makes installing its themes very easy.

Redmine themes are stored in their own subdirectories under the public/themes directory of Redmine (that is, under /opt/redmine/redmine-3.2.0/public/themes in my case). By default Redmine comes with two directories in public/themes, which are alternate and classic—these are the Alternate and Classic core Redmine themes correspondingly.

So, to install a new theme, you need to create a directory in public/themes for it. The name of the theme can actually be anything that you want it to be (that is, you can use the name that is suggested by the author, or think up your own). The only requirement for the name is that it must be in lowercase.

After you have created a directory for the theme, put all its files into it. Thus, the theme must...