From: arcane(a)live.com
To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org; daniel(a)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
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(a)live.com
To: daniel(a)nadir-seen-fire.com; mediawiki-l(a)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(a)lists.wikimedia.org
From: daniel(a)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(a)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/
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~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [
http://danielfriesen.name/]
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