+1.  There were just a few small enhancements required, everything
else was supported by the skinning system out of the box.

Like I say, there is a lot of power in Trinidad, as Leonardo
demonstrated, but not all of it transfers to the stock renderkit.  I
think it would be good to inject some enthusiasm into the community in
order to beef up Trinidad's componentry.

Leonardo, good work on this research!!

Scott

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On Jun 22, 2012, at 8:23 AM, Leonardo Uribe <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I tried to mix Trinidad casablanca skin with some Themeroller skins.
> Just take a look at these two images:
>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12533046/redmond%2Bcasablanca-2.png
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12533047/south-street%2Bcasablanca-2.png
>
> It just shows how powerful is actually MyFaces Trinidad.
>
> regards,
>
> Leonardo Uribe
>
> 2012/6/22 Joachim Schrod <[email protected]>:
>> Scott O'Bryan wrote:
>>>>
>>>> E.g., I'm active in TeX development since 1982. Without our user
>>>> communities, our mailing lists and newsgroups, our fora, where
>>>> user-level questions are answered, we developers couldn't make it.
>>>> IMHO, both aspects of community are needed. Or do you think that
>>>> the postings here with user questions are not answered because
>>>> they're too difficult?
>>> I fully agree with this Joachim.  Thing is, there are some
>>> questions that get answered and some that don't.  Targeted and
>>> informed questions where the user has done their research and has
>>> discovered an issue typically get a response. Ones where people say
>>> "My app is broken, here it is, fix it" don't.
>>
>> The latter is clear, no OSS project is going to do that. For
>> specific problems, creation of a minimal example is a demand that's
>> mandatory if one wants to keep sane.
>>
>>>>> If there is some
>>>>> functionality you'd like to see in Trinidad, please open up a
>>>>> discussion on the dev list about it.  We'd like to hear from you.
>>>> Hmm, my 1st wish would be simple:
>>>> Package the SVN-tagged 1.2.15 release. :-)
>>> HAHA.  ;)  I get ya!  Like I say, 1.2 has not been my priority and
>>> unless you're looking at taking it over, I think it will be the
>>> last 1.2..
>>
>> Since I sit here at 1:40 am, working on the next TeX Live release
>> and on our new CTAN Web site, I'm afraid I'll have problems to pack
>> even part-time responsibility for another open source project in my
>> schedule. More than two hours a day on a regular base for personal
>> OSS projects is not possible. :-)
>>
>>> I do have a question for you since you seem to be wanting it
>>> released...  It's one that I have not got an answer for.  Do you
>>> think that 1.2.15 should have the few outstanding bugs commited to
>>> the already tagged release or would you like to see the code from
>>> the experimental branches merged in as well.
>>
>> The few outstanding bugs are sufficient, IMO.
>> Integration of experimental branches can/shall be done by someone else.
>>
>> Probably a (semi-official?) declaration that 1.x is closed as long
>> as no new maintainer is forthcoming, but work on 2.x continues,
>> would be helpful, too. I know several commercial environments,
>> where such EOL announcements are business cases to budget
>> transformation projects.
>>
>> Thanks for taking the patience to answer my emails.
>>
>>        Joachim
>>
>> --
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>> Joachim Schrod, Roedermark, Germany
>> Email: [email protected]
>>

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