On Feb 10, 2008, at 12:28 AM, Erin Schnabel wrote: > This is about right, as I see it.. > > I'm about to (with the help of an intern) re-do our custom skin again, > and it almost always entails figuring out what content in albatross is > actually required, vs. what is in the templates directory. From the > 1.0 base (I know, we're slow with moving), I had to pull most of the > template/skin content from albatross (e.g. the panel wizard wouldn't > work with what was in the base template directory, IIRC)..
BTW for the Toucan Skin we were able to not touch at a single vm file.... (well just one but that's only to define the list of panels in edit mode). So all the changes are only CSS + images. > I would LOVE to see the templates providing function separated from > the "layout" a little more than it is.. That's the plan :) Have you seen http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/InterfaceExtensions ? We would love to get your feedback on that. > As we're looking at the upgrade to 1.2, I'll try to be better about > listing the issues we have with creating our skin as we run into > them.. I'd suggest you wait for 1.2.2 which will be released early next week (i.e. tomorrow or the day after probably). It has some fixes for the automatic database migration to 1.2. Thanks -Vincent > On Feb 6, 2008 3:27 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> +0.5 >> >> I agree that we should include it in 1.3M2, but I don't have an >> opinion >> about setting it as the default skin or removing albatross from the >> package. This is not something that can be done for the moment, and >> it >> won't be possible until some more code is changed. >> >> This is because for the moment Toucan is just a customization of >> Albatross, and cannot live all by itself. If we manage to extract the >> core of Albatross as platform-web templates, so that Toucan will >> depend >> only on the core templates, then I'd vote for the removal of >> Albatross. >> >> Vincent Massol wrote: >>> The idea is to keep Albatross the default skin in 1.3M2 but package >>> the Toucan skin so that users can easily use it and test it more. >>> >>> Then in 1.3RC1 we would make Toucan the default skin. We should keep >>> the Albatross skin too I think and only remove it in 1.4 (i.e. users >>> would download it from code.xwiki.org to get it). >>> >>> WDYT? >>> >>> Thanks >>> -Vincent >> >> -- >> Sergiu Dumitriu >> http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >> > > > > -- > 'Waste of a good apple' -Samwise Gamgee > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
