On 2014-05-21, 6:02 AM, Jon Robson wrote:
> I've always found it silly that skins are installed in a different way
> to extensions. It seems silly to teach a user 2 ways. To be honest I
> still haven't got the hang of skin installation. I usually crudely
> plop a folder in the skins directory which I'm pretty sure is wrong.
>
> Thus, I would personally make skins installable in the same way.
>
> If there is a need to manage that process better, I would steer
> someone in the direction of writing a SkinInstaller extension. Such an
> extension could protect the end user from the installation process and
> could also provide lots of MediaWiki coolness such as reviewing skins,
> updating skins and publishing skins.
>
> This would be my vision to steer towards any how...
The current process for installing an extension is:
1. Plop a folder in the extensions directory.
2. Put require_once( "$IP/extensions/{name}/{name}.php" ); where {name}
is the name of that folder you just plopped in.
The process I'm suggesting for skins is:
1. Plop a folder in the skins directory.
2. Put require_once( "$IP/skins/{name}/{name}.php" ); where {name} is
the name of that folder you just plopped in, which is also the name
you will use in &useskin= or $wgDefaultSkin.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/]
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