Re: [xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Stop supporting the Albatross skin

Hi As someone with a level of experience there may not be such a stretch to getting to such a place. I think it isn't so much as getting the WP compatibility in the sense of them being the same. I think it is more about moving to a model whereby the content that defines the look and feel in the way a Theme in WP or a Template in Joomla are able to be a separate product from the core code. This leans that certain elements that relate to how things are displayed are done with a set of elements that are completely independent of the core. The main component of a WP them is images and css, but it can and does contain php elements. Does Xwiki want to incorporate php into its product mix for display? I build for other projects themes for WP and templates for Joomla using a tool called Artisteer. It is a good product albeit with a share of bugs, but it allows the ability to create a single look and feel in Joomla and WP if being used within a single site. Can we get a tool like Artisteer to support the Xwiki community, possibly if it is possible to build a skin that provides the sort of model that it needs to build to when creating the skin theme. Understanding what this tool is doing might help those to understand what is going to be required for a skin to support a similar them model to WP or Joomla and allow people to make a simple mod to elements that allow the product to support Xwiki. I would be more than happy to throw out somewhere a copy of the Artisteer output for a WP or Joomla site as a starting point of what they contain to help people understand what they need to work towards. So in this vein I think the first step is moving to a complete separation of CSS, JavaScript, images, HTML markup and anything else. that defines look and feel from the main code tree into a template/theme directory. Both WP and Joomla rely on only selecting a directory within the themes/templates location to define the look and feel. It is also possible in both cases to define individual parts of a site to use different look and feel. HTH Cheers Peter Quoting Andreas Hahn <ahahn(a)gmx.net>et>: -- Peter McLarty Senior Consultant, Pacific DBMS Pty Ltd peter.mclarty(a)pacificdbms.com.au 15 Barron Road Margate, QLD 4019 Australia work: 61 7 3883 1086 mobile: 61 4 0209 4238 fax: 61 7 3883 1016 IM: pameacs.cto (Skype) http://au.linkedin.com/in/pameacs Database Consultants across Asia Pacific ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.