Packaged: Bundle a few skins with Cairo Release

Skins bundled in CairoRelease:

• ClassicSkin
• PlainSkin
• PrintSkin
• PatternSkin
• DragonSkin

-- PeterThoeny - 25 Jul 2004

Skins proposed to bundle:

• VoidSkin
• BlueSkin

I would like to bundle a few skins. Which ones should it be?

Also, to make it easy to browse through available skins we need a simple TWikiSkinBrowser.

-- PeterThoeny - 25 Jul 2004

Since it is late in the game we should ship only very few skins. One or two should be fine; administrators can add additional ones at time of deployment.

-- PeterThoeny - 25 Jul 2004

although i don't personally use it, TWiki.Koala skin seems to me to be the most popular skin. that's probably quite a task though. ColasNahaboo is very busy atm; perhaps the community of KoalaSkin users can pitch in and make this skin happen for Cairo?

-- WillNorris - 26 Jul 2004

With TWikiBetaRelease2004x05x07, now I'm using AmbarSkin, which is good for :

1. Clear and clean front-end with by-web color and SavemultiCgiScript
2. Left Web Menu easy to customize by admin or even by users
3. RenderListPlugin with nice icons

I enclose below two snapshots (Ambar Skin Example and Void Skin Example to compare with it).

-- BenoitFauvel - 27 Jul 2004

More skins are better then less

Criteria for Skins to be bundled with Cairo:

• Skin topic modified to layout of latest template, with 600x130 pixel screenshot and fullscreen image. (See SkinPackageHowTo and TWikiSkinBrowser)
• Identifiable global/web preference variable names, e.g. VOIDSKINSITEBAR instead of WEBSIDEBAR. This is to avoid confusion what is / is not part of TWiki core; avoids name clash; and makes upgrades easier
• Identifiable names for additional topic names, if any. Same reasons like above
• Don't forget to add the BROADCASTMESSAGE variable, see BroadcastMessageHandling (not required but nice to have)
• Skins works with latest Alpha (Beta coming up)
• Ready by 31 Jul 2004

-- PeterThoeny - 25 Jul 2004