Hi,
Thanks, Andrew. Good to know that all skins are free to use. I don't get
what you mean by saying "You can extend the minimal skin just fine, but
[...] you will also probably have to skin each component". In what way do I
extend a skin if I still have to skin all components? Whats the point of
extending a skin if I have to start from scratch anyway? I still don't get
it. I think there are two possibilities:
a) I am missing something.
b) the "extend" functionality is not (yet) fully implemented, although it is
documented as if it is.
In either case, can someone give me a clear answer? I don't care what the
answer is, but I need clarity, that's all. Thanks!
Best regards,
Bart Kummel
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 18:13, Andrew Robinson <andrew.rw.robin...@gmail.com
> wrote:
> All the skins in MyFaces are Apache licensed, so suede vs minimal should
> have no license implications. The suede was donated by Oracle, so we do not
> "own" it anymore. You can extend the minimal skin just fine, but there is
> more to do than just setting the aliases, you will also probably have to
> skin each component.
>
> -Andrew
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Bart Kummel <b...@kummelweb.nl> wrote:
>
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> I already figured that building my own skin would be an awful lot of work.
>> That's why I was looking into taking another skin and overriding it with
>> help of the <extends> feature. But it seems that if I extend a skin that
>> way, I loose a lot of features from the skin I extend, as I tried to explain
>> in my earlier post. The documentation suggests that I could simple change
>> some aliases in order to change the colors, for example.
>>
>> But am I right that you are saying that this isn't the case? Are you
>> saying the only way to do this is actually change and existing skin instead
>> of extending it? Talking about that: is it allowed (license-wise) to use the
>> "suede" skin as basis instead of the "minimal" skin?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Bart Kummel
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 02:41, Andrew Robinson <
>> andrew.rw.robin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It really is not easy. The best thing may be to start with a good skin &
>>> delete / change selectors, or start cutting & pasting. The minimal still has
>>> some CSS in it and it isn't 100% maintained so there may be things in there
>>> that do not need to be and there may be things that should be there that are
>>> not. Either way, building your own skin will be a lot of work.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Bart Kummel <b...@kummelweb.nl> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have a question about Trinidad Skinning. I want to create my own skin.
>>>> I'm fairly satisfied with the standard, "minimal" skin. However, the green
>>>> accent colors don't match the company style, so I want to change the
>>>> colors.
>>>> So I thought I could simple create a "myCompany.css" file with the
>>>> following contents:
>>>>
>>>>> .AFDarkBackground:alias {background-color: #00173A;}
>>>>> .AFVeryDarkBackground:alias {background-color: #000102;}
>>>>> .AFMediumBackground:alias {background-color: #0373B1;}
>>>>> .AFLightBackground:alias {background-color: #3295CA;}
>>>>> .AFTextBackground:alias {background-color: white;}
>>>>> .AFDarkForeground:alias {color: #000102;}
>>>>> .AFDarkAccentForeground:alias {color: #002C76 ;}
>>>>> .AFTextForeground:alias {color: #000102;}
>>>>> .AFSelectedTextForeground:alias {color: yellow;}
>>>>> .AFErrorTextForeground:alias {color: red;}
>>>>>
>>>> I thought by "inheriting" from minimal , I would get all other
>>>> formatting from the minimal skin. Therefore, I created the following skin
>>>> definition in trinidad-skins.xml:
>>>>
>>>>> <skin>
>>>>> <id>myCompany.desktop</id>
>>>>> <family>myCompany</family>
>>>>> <render-kit-id> org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.desktop</render-kit-id>
>>>>>
>>>>> <style-sheet-name>skins/myCompany/myCompany-skin.css</style-sheet-name>
>>>>> <extends>minimal</extends>
>>>>> </skin>
>>>>>
>>>> However, I seem to loose a lot of formatting. For example, in the
>>>> minimal skin, the <tr:panelBox> component has a thin line around the
>>>> box and some padding inside that line. If I apply my own skin, the color of
>>>> the "title bar" of the <tr:panelBox> is now indeed in the blue color I
>>>> set in the CSS, but there is no line and no padding around the box.
>>>>
>>>> I thought that I would simply inherit all formatting except the things I
>>>> override, but it seems that I'm only inherriting some formatting. Am I
>>>> missing something? Is something wrong? Or is it meant to be this way? Wo
>>>> can
>>>> clear this up for me? Thanks in advance!
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Bart Kummel
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
