On 02/09/2010 03:51 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea wrote:
> Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
>> On 02/09/2010 11:08 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I think viewheader.vm is not used anymore. I couldn't find any reference of 
>>> it in other vm nor in skins.
>>>
>>> However it's still referenced from XWiki.java, in getSkinClass() (and from 
>>> ApplicationResources*.properties files):
>>>
>>>           needsUpdate |= bclass.addTemplateField("viewheader.vm", "View 
>>> Header");
>>>
>>> But I think this field is now not only useless but even misleading since 
>>> filling it will have no effect AFAIK.
>>>
>>> Could someone confirm this? Does it mean people with custom skin will find 
>>> their skin not working anymore?
>>>
>>> Anyone knows when viewheader.vm was stopped to be used because AFAICS this 
>>> will break all existing custom skins?
>>
>> I think Dodo was the last (and only) skin that used it.
>>
>>> What new properties should we add to the XWikiSkins class?
>>
>> None. Personally I'd like to completely refactor the skin class, so that
>> it only contains a name, a description, a parent skin, and a filesystem
>> directory name. Everything else should be either in its own object (a
>> generic SkinResource with 'name' and 'content'), or as an attachment.
>>
>
>> Currently I prefer to work with attachments, that I can access via
>> WebDAV and edit in the system editor.
>
> What about templates with underscore in their names (e.g.
> textarea_wysiwyg.vm)? I recently tried to overwrite such a template by
> attaching a modified version to the skin page but the underscore was
> removed from the attachment's name..

This should be fixed in 2.3M1.

-- 
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
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