[cle-release-team] Help with Skin announcement

[Matthew Jones]

Yea, you're right, it needs to be

portal.templates=defaultskin

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Steve Swinsburg
<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>wrote:

> Is that property value correct? I thought it tied in with the directory
> here:
>
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn//portal/branches/portal-2.9.x/portal-render-engine-impl/pack/src/webapp/vm/
>
> So it would be default skin. At least that is what I used a couple of
> months ago, unless it changed?
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 07/08/2012, at 6:02, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com> wrote:
>
> Here was the write-up I started:
>
>
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+CLE+2.9+portal+changes
>
>
> To use the pre 2.9 skins you can use
>   portal.templates=classicskin
>
> All new skins are prefixed by default "neo-" all old skins have no prefix.
> Any 2.9 skins that were used prior to 2.9.0-b07 are unsupported and
> probably don't work.
>
> I think there's 3 pieces of information here for Skins.
>
> - Sakai had a standard look for the past couple of years and the standard
> skins have essentially been unchanged from 2.0->2.9.
> - For the first few betas over the last year of 2.9 there was a set of
> skins (early-neo, 2.9) these skins didn't really look that good (anymore)
> and had some bugs which were hard to fix.  Anyone who started using 2.9
> with these is really out of luck. They can continue using them, but we've
> deleted all of them and don't test anything with them.
>  - For trunk and betas 2.9.0-b07 and afterward theres a new set of skins
> (current-neo, 2.10, dos.equis) which have a different look.
>
> We were also wondering if we could call them something different. :)
>
> For the Why, look at this slideshow, maybe Dr. Dhuck has a more updated
> list of reasons, but I think the ones in here are still good.
>
> http://www.slideshare.net/csev/sakai-29-and-sakai-210-portal-and-plans
>
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Neal Caidin <
> nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> At the last CLE meeting, we discussed the need to announce a replacement
>> skin for CLE 2.9 .
>>
>> I don't know the particulars but I think the key points of the message
>> are:
>>
>> * The default portal skin for 2.9 has changed.
>> * Instructions or pointer to instructions to run your legacy skin are ……..
>> * The benefits of the new skin are an improved look and feel because …..
>>
>>
>> Are those the main points, correctly worded? Can anybody provide details
>> for how legacy skins can be run (or put on Confluence so we can point to
>> it)? Can you provide two or three key changes of the new skin compared to
>> the old?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Neal Caidin
>>
>> CLE Community Coordinator
>>
>> email - nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org
>>
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