Thanks for your contribution. Can you please create an item for this at http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/tracker/?action=TrackerItemBrowse&tracker_id=8549 so that it can be tested.

Tracker 33026 created. I hope that I have provided the information needed.

Sorry, I don't think this one is necessary. This feature helps very little, because

• it is template specific. Other admin templates don't have this feature
• It is rarely used. I actually never came along a site/client that said "I want my backend to have more padding here" or "I want different colors for the backend".
• The proper way would be to copy the template and then modify it there.

Well - a lot of Fabrik users want to make lists more compact - which is where this came from.

Copying an Admin template just to change small CSS seems to be over-kill - and will provide all sorts of maintenance overhead every time a Joomla release update changes the Admin templates.

At present we are using locale-based CSS i.e. en-gb.css (how weird is that!!!) to achieve this. Custom.css would be a more standard way of achieving this, and will be more convenient when developing a multi-country web-site where admin users might change locale frequently to test how it looks/works.

This is quite a small and simple change with little risk, so I am not clear why there should be any issue with implementing it.

I tend to agree with Hannes here. Copy the template and modify the CSS file directly. The template manager makes this a very easy thing to do.

By the way, the same could be achieved with a small system plugin which loads a custom CSS rule. I think there are various such plugins available on JED.

Well - that was an abrupt end to the discussion - if someone could please explain to me why such a small, low risk enhancement should be treated this way, I would be grateful.

Feel free to reopen the issue if you think the close was inapropriate. I closed it without seeing your first response.