On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:51:32 -0800, Arcane 21 <[email protected]> wrote:
My question is simple: How do I (A) clone the Vector skin and (B) make
it so my customized Vector skin can have custom background and text
colors.
I tried using this skin initially: https://code.google.com/p/darkvector/
Unfortunately, it has graphical errors in my version of MediaWiki
(currently 1.19.3), so I decided it would be better to take my own
version of Vector, clone under a different name (currently DarkVector is
the name I'm using), then I planned to make my own version of darkvector
(I was going to change the colors slightly, but I like the version on
google code)
Unfortunately, I'm only really good at editing CSS. I tried editing my
clone .php files, but I either (A) keep screwing up the layout (and the
sidebar disappears) or (B) I get it looking right but all of my edits to
the screen.css to change the colors have no effect.
I'm not sure I know what I doing, so if someone could walk me through
what I'd like to do or could provided me pointers on what I might be
getting wrong, I would appreciate the assistance.
You don't want to clone vector. Rather you want to create a skin that's
based on it.
See http://blog.redwerks.org/2012/02/28/mediawiki-subskin-tutorial/
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~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/]
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