On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 9:55 AM, Interaktionsweise
<ne...@interaktionsweise.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to create a new skin. I followed the section Skins within the 
> Developer's Guide and also Platform Features / Skins.
> The article "How to create a new skin" says to copy the whole colibri (should 
> be flamingo by now) skin folder and make an example change. Then there is a 
> part about skin.properties. The property "parent" indicates a skin to inherit 
> from. It says that it always has a value, even if I don't explicitly enter 
> one for myself it will inherit from WAR or whatever is configured in 
> "xwiki.defaultbaseskin".

> Does that mean I don't have to copy the whole flamingo folder if I reference 
> flamingo as "parent"? This way I could only create a custom named folder 
> within the xwiki/skins folder with the skin.properties file and for example a 
> logo.png file which would replace the flamingo logo.png file.

Yes you can inherit from Flamingo, no need to duplicate it if you just
want to customize some templates only.

> I don't understand the behavior and the functionality of this inheriting and 
> parent child relation of skins from the articles in the documentation. Why 
> have a parent if I copy the whole skin folder anyways?
>
> Regards,
> sthag



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Thomas Mortagne

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