[Building Sakai] Portal NEO Prefix

[Sam Ottenhoff]

Yeah, I think neo has proved itself as our look-and-feel future.  I'm
generally looking here to get rid of this prefix if possible so we don't
need to update tools like STAT-345...

--Sam


On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 3:41 PM, David Adams <da1 at vt.edu> wrote:

> I was just looking at this earlier this week. There's also a new
> property "portal.templates" that specifies what VM templates to use
> when rendering the HTML. Hardcoded into the portal logic, it checks to
> see if portal.templates is "neoskin" and if it is, it ensures that the
> skin name (property skin.default) is prefixed with the value of
> property portal.neoprefix.
>
> I assume the reasoning behind it was to make sure you don't
> accidentally specify a non-"neo" skin. But in practice it's turned out
> to make things much more confusing. In our case, our developers
> updated the "default" skin directory with their new neoportal CSS,
> thinking that since skin.default was set to "default" that meant (as
> it has up through 2.8) that the skin directory would be named
> "default". But nope, it was "neo-default" that was actually getting
> served.
>
> Doh.
>
> -dave
>
>
> Sam Ottenhoff wrote:
> > Can someone explain the need for the 2.9+ property called
> portal.neoprefix with a default value of "neo-"?  I understand that it
> means your "default" skin now becomes "neo-default", but why was it needed?
> >
> > We are starting to see some requests like this one:
> >
> >   https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/STAT-345
> >
> > The tools include a link to the tool.css file, but it's not the one they
> expect because the tool has no idea about this neoprefix.
> >
> > So, is neoprefix necessary?  Do we need to patch the tools to make them
> neo-aware?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sam
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