[Building Sakai] CLE Skins default and neo-defualt

[Gonzalo Silverio]

Hi Mustansar,

Regarding the skin documentation, I will get that done for  Beta-07 in a
week or so after it is stable. It will be checked in the reference/docs of
trunk, would appreciate any comments, feedback.

Thanks.

   - Gonzalo

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Mustansar Mehmood <mustansar at rice.edu>wrote:

>  Thanks a lot for clarifying this to me. I hope part of the this
> conversation makes it into the skinning document for CLE as it gets
> released.
> I want to use "neo-default" and now I have a few questions for this case
> 1-Can we safely remove(delete) all other skins while using neo-default?
> 2-What would be recommended settings in sakai.properties file in addition
> to "skin.default=default"?
>
> On 06/27/2012 12:21 PM, Charles Hedrick wrote:
>
> We have several special skins. Once we go to neo, the skins all have to be updated. It a site has a custom skin for which there isn't a neo version, the system doesn't fall back - it gives a pretty much unusable site.
>
> On Jun 27, 2012, at 12:31 PM, Charles Severance <csev at umich.edu> <csev at umich.edu> wrote:
>
>
>  Munstansar,
>
> This is for a very specific purpose.
>
> Sakai 2.9 has a brand-new skin with new HTML markup that required significant changes to CSS, Velocity, Javascript and everything to support a lot of new portal features.  But for 2.9, I wanted to maintain the old skin as well for schools who had invested a lot in the old skin with local patches, etc.
>
> So we made a copy of everything - velocity files, css, javascript, etc and left the 2.8 skin intact with no changes.  You can revert back to the 2.8 skin in 2.9 using this property
>
> portal.templates=defaultskin
>
> This is a transition strategy only and after 2.9, I intend to remove the old "defaultskin" and have only one skin (the neo skins) for 2.10.
>
> This was a way for a school to go to 2.9 and not be forced to take the new portal layout / markup or to separate the moment where they installed the upgrade from the moment they changed all the skins.
>
> If you like the new 2.9 skin - great use it - if you have too much invested in the old skin - switch it back for 2.9.  All your patches / skins should drop into the exact same place as 2.8 - that is why the new skin is in folders with "neo-" as prefix.
>
> For 2.10, I want to "take off the training wheels" and go back to only having one skin (the neo skin).
>
> /Chuck
>
>
> On Jun 27, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Mustansar Mehmood wrote:
>
>
>  Hi,
>     Among skins shipped with Sakai CLE 2.9.x there are two skins "defualt" and "neo-default". I am wondering if the are the completely separate skins or they have some relation with each other.
> The reason I am asking this question is that I changed the "neo-default" skin without any change in sakai.properties file which was set to use default skin, and the instance picked up the "neo-default" skin.
> Regards,
> Mustansar
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