I would be interested as well! I tried making a custom theme based off vector a few years ago but it seemed like quite a bit of effort to build something comprehensive that anyone would actually want to replace the default with. I'd love a guided tour!
--stephen
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Jon Robson jdlrobson@gmail.com wrote:
I'd be interested in the process people go through purely from a how can I make this simpler perspective. Alternatively you might want to consider doing a skin hack day/afternoon where people build skins and learn for themselves the horror of that process :)
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Bryan Davis bd808@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Isarra Yos zhorishna@gmail.com wrote:
Jack Phoenix and I were considering doing a tech talk about how to
make a
MediaWiki skin. Would there be any interest in this? What would you
folks
want to see from such a talk?
I'd love to get an overview on creating a new skin. I would be especially interested in the "tales from the real world" aspects of working with RL, what is and isn't possible without implementing hooks, and lessons learned from past skins the two of you have worked on.
Bryan
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