Hi,
It is getting harder to maintain 3 different skins. We should decide now whether (or for how long) we keep upgrading the 'dodo' skin. I know it is still widely used on the farm, so completely removing it is not a valid option.
Here are some possibilities regarding the 'dodo' skin:
1. Keep things as they are now, with casual upgrades in the skin, and all the resources available.
2. Declare it as deprecated, we no longer provide improvements to the skin, just fixes when changes in the core cause malfunctions in the skin. We keep the resources in the main
AppRes.properties. It will still be part of the trunk and the official builds.
3. Declare it as deprecated as above, but move it out of the trunk, in a 'skins' svn directory, along with the associated resources (afterwards we clean up all the resource files). It will still be deployed on the farm, but we encourage all the users to upgrade to the new skin.
I think that on the long run, number 3 is the better option, especially if we expect major changes in the way skins work (UI extensions, wizards, improved resources).
Sergiu
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