joomla/joomla-cms — pull request #3709 by Sophist-UK (2014-06-02 12:42:36+00:00)
Title: Load custom.css (if exist) in Admin templates.

See [tracker #33026](http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_item_id=33026&start=0).

This change was previously submitted as #2684, and as per @bakual I am resubmitting it as a way to reopen it. The background to this is as follows:

1. A lot of Fabrik users want to make lists more compact - since there is no custom.css in the standard Joomla 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.

2. Clearly a user can change the basic css files for the template, however that will be overwritten when you apply a Joomla update.

3. It was previously suggested that the way to achieve this is to copy the template e.g. create my-isis and make changes to the CSS there. Copying an Admin template just to change small CSS seems to me to be a little over-kill - and will then provide a potential minefield of incompatibility where you are using a copy of an old template against an updated rest of Joomla, and a maintenance overhead to re-copy and reapply the css changes every time there is a joomla update.

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