I managed to figure out what I needed to do by following this manual: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skinning/Vector
> From: [email protected] > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:07:51 -0600 > Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Requesting help and advice on making a custom > Vector skin > > > I followed the instructions on that tutorial, and I have my Dark Vector > subskin set up as the tutorial specified, but I'm having two problems > > 1. Simple Search (as enabled by "$wgVectorUseSimpleSearch = true;" in > LocalSettings.php) doesn't seem to work properly. When removed from my > LocalSettings.php file, the skin looks normal, but I'd like to have that > feature on my derivative skin. > > 2. I tried editing the CSS to change the background and text color, and it > seems to have no effect. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I was trying > to make the non content areas black, the text either blue or black, and the > content area gray, and even though I copied the CSS that controls the colors > from the Vector screen.css and modified it accordingly, there seems to be no > changes. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > > Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:14:46 -0600 > > Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Requesting help and advice on making a custom > > Vector skin > > > > > > Ah, I get your point. Thanks for the suggestion, and that link has a pretty > > easy to follow tutorial, so I'll try that. > > > > Much appreciated. > > > > > To: [email protected] > > > From: [email protected] > > > Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:56:59 -0800 > > > Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Requesting help and advice on making a custom > > > Vector skin > > > > > > 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/ > > > > > > -- > > > ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/] > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
