Hi, IMO /templates/ folder makes sense when there are multiple skins supported. Now that Colibri is not the default skin anymore, we should copy all the templates specific to Colibri in /colibri/ folder. Flamingo should contain just templates specific to it. /templates/ should contain templates shared both by Colibri and Flamingo. When we are going to deprecate Colibri, in the deprecation step we should copy the whole content of /templates/ and add it in Colibri, than move it to contrib. In the close future we might need to have multiple skins depending on the Flavor. This means we might use the templates folder much more (and Colibri will be deprecated in the meanwhile) because the new skins will probably fallback on the Flamingo skin.

This means, when we deprecate Colibri we will need to copy all the templates from Flamingo and move them to /templates. When new skins appear we take the specific templates and put them in the desired skin folder while keeping the common templates in templates/. etc.etc.etc. This is the way we worked until now with the skins we had: albatross, toucan, colibri. Thanks, Caty On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com wrote: > The location of this folder only make sense when it contains only > generic content. All skins inherit from it and having Flamingo inherit > from a partial Colibri (which is the current situation) does not make > any sense. > Having this folder not containing much is not an issue but having it > filled with what is specific to a skin does not make any sense. Why > bother even having a separated project for the skin in that case ? > On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Guillaume "Louis-Marie" Delhumeau > <gdelhumeau(a)xwiki.com> wrote: > > Hi. > > > Since 6.2, we have the following issue: > > http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-11027 "The templates directory has > VMs > > from Colibri". > > > Until now, we used to have all *.vm files in this directory, and nothing > in > > the "colibri" one, because Colibri was the default skin. > > > Now that Flamingo is the default skin, we have to decide what we do with > > this directory. Should we move all Flamingo's files in that directory? > > Should we only put the files that Colibri & Flamingo have in common? I > have > > reported a list of problems that these decisions make, on the Jira. > > > Actually, the "templates" directory seems to mean that we should put only on Distribution > > Wizard that should not be skin-dependent. > > > What do you think about it? > > > Thanks, > > > -- > > Guillaume Delhumeau (gdelhumeau(a)xwiki.com) > > Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS > > Committer on the XWiki.org project > > _______________________________________________ > > devs mailing list > > devs(a)xwiki.org > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- > Thomas Mortagne > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > devs(a)xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Guillaume "Louis-Marie" Delhumeau < gdelhumeau(a)xwiki.com&gt; wrote: How do we set 'base skin' at filesystem level? If we were to have multiple skins for Groupware, Public Website, etc. Flavors, and we implement them as file system skins, how do you make them fallback on the common templates?

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My conclusions. We should keep in the /templates/ directory the files that are sufficiently generic to be shared with nearly all skins. For example: extensions.vm, accessdenied.vm, addnewgroup.vm, etc... Then, we move all other files to the /colibri/ and the /flamingo/ folders. Finally, we rely on the new skin descriptor that Thomas is working on to be able to specify a base skin for every file system skins.

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