(adding Design list)

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske@googlemail.com> wrote:
Whatever happened to Winter? It's not coming, AFAICT...

Yes. See the "Winter" thread on the design mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/design/2015-July/thread.html

There are three avenues for appearance development
* User JS+CSS and gadgets.
* Iterate on Vector as Beta features (sadly "Compact personal bar" and "Fixed header" are no longer offered as Beta Features due to bugs).
* Prototype and refine new skins.

Regards,
 
On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 2:58 PM Ricordisamoa <ricordisamoa@openmailbox.org>
wrote:

> There is some work about getting the mobile skin on desktop (T71366
> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T71366>), and Blueprint
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Blueprint> powers the Living Style
> Guide.
> However, no matter how ancient Vector may look, the little updates it
> has received over the years make me think it isn't that bad for those
> who use it.
>
> Il 08/09/2015 19:53, Thomas Mulhall ha scritto:
> >   Hi this is a question but shoulden Wikimedia wikis such as Wikipedia
> be updated with a user friendly design. Currently vector is coming out of
> date because now a days you see sites with bruitiful colours not old ones
> as they were in 2010 when vector came out. We could create another skin to
> replace vector as we did with monobook or update vector with a new look
> that has bold colours and goes along with mediawiki code and is also mobile
> optimised even though we have the mobilefrontend extension some users may
> not want to install instead hoping the skin is mobile optimised.



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