On 11-03-23 06:36 AM, Marcin Cieslak wrote:
[...] Just to give a not-so-hypothetical example, since I don't like discussing in vain, what about this:
Is this okay to fix https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16260 by adding a new [[Message:qsidebar]] that is the same as [[Message:Sidebar]] only accepts EDIT, THISPAGE, CONTEXT, MYPAGES, SPECIALPAGES, TOOLBOX boxes?
I see that hartman and dartman did some work there recently, and ashley one clean up about a year ago.
//Marcin
I'd actually like to eliminate legacy skins altogether. They show up and throw a thorn into skin improvements repeatedly. Perhaps after coming up with some replacements that fit the requirements of the people that actually use them. I haven't got any statistics yet on how many active users are actually using these skins.
The fact that we'd discuss a bug like that not because CologneBlue and the other legacy skins have a unique feature or layout they were created to offer and we're trying to improve it, but because CologneBlue and the other legacy skins lay out the ui in a pre-SkinTemplate era way of layout we're maintaining and trying to backport modern improvements into is a good example of why I want to get rid of them. It's like trying to backport modern features to REL1_11.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]