I don't think anyone is suggesting removing or even moving Monobook. I think we are more talking about assigning effort more proportionally to preference of users. Cologne Blue is not the clear favorite of any group of users that we know of.
- Trevor On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11 March 2014 15:21, Jon Robson <jdlrob...@gmail.com> 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 > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
