Hans Bracker (2012-10-08 12:07): > > Saturday, October 6, 2012, 9:20:13 PM, Petko wrote: > > I'd like to have some arguments from the community why we should or > > shouldn't have a dedicated Skins/ group. > > Since the introduction of categories and links to listing by category > in the cookbook group menu I did not find a problem having skins in the > cookbook. > For general browsing in general lists like RecentChanges it did help to have > skins identified in the page name by a 'Skin' suffix, like PmWikiSkin. > Not all skin pages have that, unfortunately. A dedicated page group for skin > pages will eliminate that, obviously. > > But moving skin recipes into their own group will likely break a number of > links in external sites. I am using the Cookbook:.... alias on external > sites, so any links to skin pages will need to be modified. We probably need > a Skins:.... alias to create links to page sin the PmWiki.org Skins group > easily. That would require a change in the distributed system, and it will > not be backwards compatible. So broken external links won't be fixed > automatically, and not easily, unless a system update will prepare for that. > > Then there may be all kinds of internal links on Cookbook pages between skin > page and other recipe pages. Perhaps they can be modified automatically, > otherwise need manual page revisions. > > So the organisational work may be more than one thinks, especially > considering the impact on external sites. Is the benefit big enough to > warrant this? I doubt it, since categories seem already to offer the best way > to browse the cookbook.
I, for one, don't expect to see Skins under pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook and don't expect recipes under pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Skins. As someone has already mentioned, recipes change/add functionality and skins change the look. I would like it better if there was clear separation between the two (but not necessarily separate groups). At least separate Cookbook indexes: Recipe Index by Rating Recipe Index Skin Index Skin Index by Rating At the top of http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/IndexByRating is Skittlish, but it's not clear that it changes the look when reading its name or description: Skittlish allows site visitors to choose between fixed and fluid width, and between seven candy-inspired colours for the sidebar. http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Skins lists recipes, which do not change the look: CssCompress, EditFormSamples, FontSizer, HideSearchBar, JsCompress, NetstreamsMenu, RemovingHTMLStyles, SkinChange, SkinChanges, SkinConfig, SkinGuidelines, SkinList, ViewModes. -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
