On 11 March 2014 15:21, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote: > > It might be easier to revamp the skin system if there were fewer skins to > > port. > > Touché. > > So.. so 2 questions > 1) would anyone have any objections to moving it out of core and into > its own extension? > 2) would anyone have any objections for turning it off on Wikimedia wikis > > FWIW, having a single skin in core would actually be a good thing for > skin development. Currently writing a skin outside core is difficult - > I found this in the development of the mobile skin. Having a leaner > codebase in core would actually encourage better organisation to make > things. skinStyles is a great example - if your skin is not in core, > you can't use it. > >
Speaking from a user perspective, having all of 4 skins available (really? 4? That's a lot?) does make a difference in differentiating which nearly-identical wikis one is working on, particularly if one or more of the wikis involved are non-public ones. Aside from Vector and Monobook, though, I don't see a reason why they can't be extensions, as long as they're still in the preference lists. I strongly urge maintaining Monobook exactly the way that Vector is maintained: it's the clear favourite of the most active users, it's still faster after years of improving Vector, and it handles a lot of accessibility issues much better than Vector (particularly for the visually impaired, according to those editors I know who have to deal with this). Risker/Anne _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
