Hi Timothy, We're in a discussion about the best way to handle this internally... the issue is engineering and testing resources to maintain two versions like that. We've been fairly committed to having only one "new" skin... hence the cutoff shift from V1 to V2. The feedback on V2 was fairly strong on the width of the right sidebar so, to be honest, we anticipated that V3 would be greatly preferred over V2. Let us get V3 up as a beta skin that people can try it out (the same way we did when we introduced V2) and see what the reactions are once you can actually play with it. From a "limited engineering resources" perspective, the right thing to do is concentrate on one... but V3 is also an effort to do the right thing by the communities. Our strong preference is to only concentrate on one and move to V3... but I'd like to hear how the communities would want this handled given the caveat above of limited engineering for this over time.
forum link: http://inside.wikia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=141 Thanks, John Q. Timothy J. Crowell wrote: > The current Quartz skin (and the versions) will still be available for > those that like them right? > > -Timothy > > On Dec 22, 2007 12:49 AM, JohnQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi Chris, >> >> Yes, understand what you mean about it jumping around. We'll review this >> to make sure we're getting the consistency that's expected. Quartz >> allowed for admin customization just like Monobook... either by editing >> the css directly or via the skin chooser. The thing we added into it >> that could have the effect you mention is a personal preference view and >> whether that overrides the admin view. We still want to provide a way >> for admins to easily customize a wiki's look before having to know css >> to do it... so we'll review to see if we can resolve any consistency issues. >> >> Thanks, >> John Q. >> >> >> >> Chris Stafford wrote: >> >>> the biggest complaint i personally kept hearing about quartz vs >>> monobook, was that users wanted the menus back on the left (ala >>> monobook), >>> >>> why not make this new quartz3 instead into an enchanced monobook (aka >>> monobook v2) instead of completely changing the way people have come >>> to adjust to quartz. >>> >>> if you had set your skin to monobook, you knew it was gonna stay the >>> same, where as if you were using quartz, you never knew what was going >>> to moving around based on what the devs/staff were feeling like that >>> day/week. >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> Wikia-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikia-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikia-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l > > _______________________________________________ Wikia-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l
