My question is simple: How do I (A) clone the Vector skin and (B) make it so my customized Vector skin can have custom background and text colors.
I tried using this skin initially: https://code.google.com/p/darkvector/
Unfortunately, it has graphical errors in my version of MediaWiki (currently 1.19.3), so I decided it would be better to take my own version of Vector, clone under a different name (currently DarkVector is the name I'm using), then I planned to make my own version of darkvector (I was going to change the colors slightly, but I like the version on google code)
Unfortunately, I'm only really good at editing CSS. I tried editing my clone .php files, but I either (A) keep screwing up the layout (and the sidebar disappears) or (B) I get it looking right but all of my edits to the screen.css to change the colors have no effect.
I'm not sure I know what I doing, so if someone could walk me through what I'd like to do or could provided me pointers on what I might be getting wrong, I would appreciate the assistance.
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:51:32 -0800, Arcane 21 arcane@live.com wrote:
My question is simple: How do I (A) clone the Vector skin and (B) make it so my customized Vector skin can have custom background and text colors.
I tried using this skin initially: https://code.google.com/p/darkvector/
Unfortunately, it has graphical errors in my version of MediaWiki (currently 1.19.3), so I decided it would be better to take my own version of Vector, clone under a different name (currently DarkVector is the name I'm using), then I planned to make my own version of darkvector (I was going to change the colors slightly, but I like the version on google code)
Unfortunately, I'm only really good at editing CSS. I tried editing my clone .php files, but I either (A) keep screwing up the layout (and the sidebar disappears) or (B) I get it looking right but all of my edits to the screen.css to change the colors have no effect.
I'm not sure I know what I doing, so if someone could walk me through what I'd like to do or could provided me pointers on what I might be getting wrong, I would appreciate the assistance.
You don't want to clone vector. Rather you want to create a skin that's based on it.
See http://blog.redwerks.org/2012/02/28/mediawiki-subskin-tutorial/
Ah, I get your point. Thanks for the suggestion, and that link has a pretty easy to follow tutorial, so I'll try that.
Much appreciated.
To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org From: daniel@nadir-seen-fire.com Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:56:59 -0800 Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Requesting help and advice on making a custom Vector skin
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:51:32 -0800, Arcane 21 arcane@live.com wrote:
My question is simple: How do I (A) clone the Vector skin and (B) make it so my customized Vector skin can have custom background and text colors.
I tried using this skin initially: https://code.google.com/p/darkvector/
Unfortunately, it has graphical errors in my version of MediaWiki (currently 1.19.3), so I decided it would be better to take my own version of Vector, clone under a different name (currently DarkVector is the name I'm using), then I planned to make my own version of darkvector (I was going to change the colors slightly, but I like the version on google code)
Unfortunately, I'm only really good at editing CSS. I tried editing my clone .php files, but I either (A) keep screwing up the layout (and the sidebar disappears) or (B) I get it looking right but all of my edits to the screen.css to change the colors have no effect.
I'm not sure I know what I doing, so if someone could walk me through what I'd like to do or could provided me pointers on what I might be getting wrong, I would appreciate the assistance.
You don't want to clone vector. Rather you want to create a skin that's based on it.
See http://blog.redwerks.org/2012/02/28/mediawiki-subskin-tutorial/
-- ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/]
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I followed the instructions on that tutorial, and I have my Dark Vector subskin set up as the tutorial specified, but I'm having two problems
1. Simple Search (as enabled by "$wgVectorUseSimpleSearch = true;" in LocalSettings.php) doesn't seem to work properly. When removed from my LocalSettings.php file, the skin looks normal, but I'd like to have that feature on my derivative skin.
2. I tried editing the CSS to change the background and text color, and it seems to have no effect. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I was trying to make the non content areas black, the text either blue or black, and the content area gray, and even though I copied the CSS that controls the colors from the Vector screen.css and modified it accordingly, there seems to be no changes.
Any help would be appreciated.
From: arcane@live.com To: daniel@nadir-seen-fire.com; mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:14:46 -0600 Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Requesting help and advice on making a custom Vector skin
Ah, I get your point. Thanks for the suggestion, and that link has a pretty easy to follow tutorial, so I'll try that.
Much appreciated.
To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org From: daniel@nadir-seen-fire.com Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:56:59 -0800 Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Requesting help and advice on making a custom Vector skin
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:51:32 -0800, Arcane 21 arcane@live.com wrote:
My question is simple: How do I (A) clone the Vector skin and (B) make it so my customized Vector skin can have custom background and text colors.
I tried using this skin initially: https://code.google.com/p/darkvector/
Unfortunately, it has graphical errors in my version of MediaWiki (currently 1.19.3), so I decided it would be better to take my own version of Vector, clone under a different name (currently DarkVector is the name I'm using), then I planned to make my own version of darkvector (I was going to change the colors slightly, but I like the version on google code)
Unfortunately, I'm only really good at editing CSS. I tried editing my clone .php files, but I either (A) keep screwing up the layout (and the sidebar disappears) or (B) I get it looking right but all of my edits to the screen.css to change the colors have no effect.
I'm not sure I know what I doing, so if someone could walk me through what I'd like to do or could provided me pointers on what I might be getting wrong, I would appreciate the assistance.
You don't want to clone vector. Rather you want to create a skin that's based on it.
See http://blog.redwerks.org/2012/02/28/mediawiki-subskin-tutorial/
-- ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/]
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I managed to figure out what I needed to do by following this manual:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skinning/Vector
From: arcane@live.com To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org; daniel@nadir-seen-fire.com Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:07:51 -0600 Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Requesting help and advice on making a custom Vector skin
I followed the instructions on that tutorial, and I have my Dark Vector subskin set up as the tutorial specified, but I'm having two problems
Simple Search (as enabled by "$wgVectorUseSimpleSearch = true;" in LocalSettings.php) doesn't seem to work properly. When removed from my LocalSettings.php file, the skin looks normal, but I'd like to have that feature on my derivative skin.
I tried editing the CSS to change the background and text color, and it seems to have no effect. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I was trying to make the non content areas black, the text either blue or black, and the content area gray, and even though I copied the CSS that controls the colors from the Vector screen.css and modified it accordingly, there seems to be no changes.
Any help would be appreciated.
From: arcane@live.com To: daniel@nadir-seen-fire.com; mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:14:46 -0600 Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Requesting help and advice on making a custom Vector skin
Ah, I get your point. Thanks for the suggestion, and that link has a pretty easy to follow tutorial, so I'll try that.
Much appreciated.
To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org From: daniel@nadir-seen-fire.com Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:56:59 -0800 Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Requesting help and advice on making a custom Vector skin
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:51:32 -0800, Arcane 21 arcane@live.com wrote:
My question is simple: How do I (A) clone the Vector skin and (B) make it so my customized Vector skin can have custom background and text colors.
I tried using this skin initially: https://code.google.com/p/darkvector/
Unfortunately, it has graphical errors in my version of MediaWiki (currently 1.19.3), so I decided it would be better to take my own version of Vector, clone under a different name (currently DarkVector is the name I'm using), then I planned to make my own version of darkvector (I was going to change the colors slightly, but I like the version on google code)
Unfortunately, I'm only really good at editing CSS. I tried editing my clone .php files, but I either (A) keep screwing up the layout (and the sidebar disappears) or (B) I get it looking right but all of my edits to the screen.css to change the colors have no effect.
I'm not sure I know what I doing, so if someone could walk me through what I'd like to do or could provided me pointers on what I might be getting wrong, I would appreciate the assistance.
You don't want to clone vector. Rather you want to create a skin that's based on it.
See http://blog.redwerks.org/2012/02/28/mediawiki-subskin-tutorial/
-- ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/]
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