On Jan 16, 2013, at 11:27 PM, Sorin Burjan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello, see my comments below
> 
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Naoufel Chbihi <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hello
>> 
>> I'm running Xwiki Enterprise 4.4 on Apache Tomca 6 and I'm trying to
>> create a custom skin for a space that I defined in the default wiki but
>> nothing is changing.  I tried following the steps provided in
>> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Skins#HChangingtheSkinatspacelevel(and
>>  specifying "toucan" as the skin) but nothing happened.  I also tried
>> the procedure described in
>> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/Skins under "How to
>> override a Skin" sections A, B, C, D and F.1 but I didn't see any changes.

What you've done should work fine. You just need to specify a skin that exists.

Thanks
-Vincent

>> 
> The Toucan skin was retired in 4.4-rc1, so it is no longer available in 4.4
> final. It was considered deprecated and was not maintained anymore for some
> quite time now, and we decided to remove it. If you are still you want to
> use it, you can still download it and deploy it in your wiki instance (see
> http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Toucan+Skin )
> Colibri is now the only skin we bundle by default in XWiki products. XWiki
> skins are much more than just some css and js files, writing a full skin
> from scratch requires quite a lot of work.
> 
>> 
>> Could someone please tell me how I can create a custom skin?  I don't mind
>> doing it either through web interface or by editing files directly on the
>> server.
>> 
> 
> To solve your issue you have 2 options from my point of view:
> 
> 1) If you want to have different look for each space, you should use the
> ColorTheme application (bundled by default), and create custom themes which
> can be applied on a per space basis. This is the easiest way of achieving
> what you want. For more info, look
> http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Color+Theme+Application
> 2) You can follow the tutorial on Overriding a skin and override the parts
> which you want to change. This approach is a little bit harder.
> 
> Hope it will help
> 
> Regards,
> Sorin B.
> 
>> 
>> Thank you.
>> 
>> Naoufel Chbihi
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