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Ross Gardler commented on FOR-970:
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I had the same need when I built the ecs input plugin (in whiteboard). The 
index.xml page describes what I did (basically defined the available CSS and 
expected the user to provide their own CSS). I opted for this because, since we 
don't know the users skin/theme we can't really provide meaningful default CSS.

However, I see some defaults may be useful. 

My initial thought is that the plugins could provide an "extra.css" or 
"extra-css.xml" file. These can then be collated when the plugin is installed 
at startup. The collated document is then embedded in skinconf.xml or a 
dispatcher contract as appropriate.

> Add a way to have plugin specific resources, such as its own CSS styling, 
> independent of skin or theme
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>
>                 Key: FOR-970
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-970
>             Project: Forrest
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Plugins (general issues)
>    Affects Versions: 0.7, 0.8-dev
>            Reporter: Gavin
>             Fix For: 0.9
>
>
> It would be nice if plugins could be a little more independent of core skins 
> and themes for plugin specific styling.
> This could be CSS, or something else, I have only identified CSS needs at 
> present.

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