[xwiki-users] overriding view.vm in own skin

[Sergiu Dumitriu]

rssh wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:50:41 +0300, Mihails Agafonovs wrote
>> Have you restarted you server?
> 
> Yes, of course.
> 
>  Where was the problem: when skin is not set, xwiki look in user preferences
> for user skin.
>  With new administration application, when skin is not set,
> 'XWiki.DefaultSkin' is returned (instead ""), and xwiki try to find file
>  in skin with name 'XWiki.DefaultSkin', than go to base skin.

Are you sure about this? I tried locally and it works fine. If the skin 
is not defined in XWikiPreferences, then the skin from xwiki.cfg 
(xwiki.defaultskin) is used.

Make sure that:
- In the administration page, XWiki.DefaultSkin is not present
- Or, if it is, you can modify XWiki.DefaultSkin to set the baseskin to 
your skin (x)
- Or, you can put x in the administration page as the global skin and 
leave xwiki.cfg unchanged

> I will submit to JIRA patch wich will fix  this issue in nearest time.
> 
> Question to community: what's better ?
>  a) change XWiki.java to process XWiki.DefaultSkin as no-skin ?
>  b) change intialization of user preferences to return "" or null instead
> XWiki.DefaultSkin, when default skin is not set.
>   
> 
>>  Quoting rssh : On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:02:20 +0300, rssh wrote
>>  > Good day, community.
>>  > 
>>  > Small question about customizing xwiki:
>>  >   - I want to customize skin, by creating own skin (with name
>> 'x'), 
>>  > After reading
>> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Skins
>>  >  I do next sequences of steps:
>>  > 
>>  > a) creating directory <xwiki-base>/skins/x, 
>>  > b) copying all files from touckan to x 
>>  > c) changing default skin in xwiki.cfg grom touckan to x
>>  > d) copying file templates/view.vm  to x
>>  > e) customizing view.vm  (writing onethins inside)
>>  > 
>>  > Last step does not work; i. e. if I change view.vm, nothing
>> changed 
>>  > in xwiki.
>>  > 
>>  > So, question: it is such problem with my installation, or I
>> missed something
>>  >  during creation of skin ?
>>  > 
>>  self-moderation: whith ?skin=x additional parameter all works.
>>  So: is exists way, where  xwiki.defaultskin parameter from xwiki.cfg
>> is
>>  incorrect ?


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