Thorsten Scherler wrote:
On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 12:05 +0200, C. Grobmeier wrote:
See the above linked document, all is explained in there (although
maybe not clearly enough, patches welcome). In particular for changing
colours (as opposed to layout) see the skinconf.xml file, with
particular attention to the <extra-css> and <colors> elements.
Thanks, i saw and read that. But i also want to change the layout of the
tabs and f.e. switch the menu to the right etc. I think this cannot be
done with extra css, or can i? As far as i understand with the above
link, when i have small changes like f.e. colors, logo etc i use
skinconf.xml. When i have bigger changes like modifying the tabs grafics
or putting the tabs to the right side and such things, i have to prepare
an extra skin with my own css. Looks like i have not to modify the xsl
in most cases.
http://forrest.apache.org/pluginDocs/plugins_0_80/org.apache.forrest.plugin.internal.dispatcher/#introduction
"As stated in the Skin documentation the aim of the Forrest skins is to
provide many capabilities so that extra skins are not needed. Experience
showed that many Forrest users still decided to create a new skin
because the default skin did not offer the features that they wanted or
they "just" needed extra content in some pages. ..."
I would say your case fuels our experience.
I disagree. Chris states that he does not expect to have to change the
XSL, thus no need for a new skin only CSS changes, thus everything can
be done via skinconf.xml.
Having said that, if Chris wants to move to the dispatcher he will
benifit from the many advantages of the dispatcher over skins, but he
will also be working with an unreleased version of Forrest.
Ross
