On 10-12-06 07:48 AM, Trevor Parscal wrote: > On 12/6/10 3:18 AM, Daniel Friesen wrote: > >> It's not part of distribution, but the new installer's ability to point >> out extensions and allow you to install them from the installer was >> pointed out. However generally each skin doesn't have it's own set of >> configuration (vector does, but generally as an ideal having a bunch of >> skins that are nothing but a separate theme for the site should not >> require special configuration of each one of them) so there isn't really >> much use for sharing configuration infrastructure. Additionally, if we >> do add an autoloader for the new style of skin there's not really any >> point to having the installer point out skins. If they're in a spot the >> installer can find them, they'll already be autoloaded anyways. >> > Or you can just add support for a visual interface for controlling skin > settings. Wordpress does this kind of thing by having a script that just > registers things, but we could do it in a variety of ways. The point > here is, configuring skins isn't such a bad idea, it helps solve > problems where people want the same skin with just a little tweaking, > reducing forking, which helps concentrate efforts on a single distribution. > > - Trevor > Sure, that's an even better point. If we DO have some sort of skin configuration we'll probably want a nice visual interface that people can understand, and if possible, we'll probably want to integrate some of it into the preferences system so that users can customize some of what they see to.
Anything we build for configuring an extension is going to be preference-less and geared towards configuring config vars and actual complex config settings used by extensions. Extensions and Skins have differing ideals for visual interfaces. ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] -- ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
