Hi, I'm trying to create a new skin. I followed the section Skins within the Developer's Guide and also Platform Features / Skins. The article "How to create a new skin" says to copy the whole colibri (should be flamingo by now) skin folder and make an example change. Then there is a part about skin.properties. The property "parent" indicates a skin to inherit from. It says that it always has a value, even if I don't explicitly enter one for myself it will inherit from WAR or whatever is configured in "xwiki.defaultbaseskin".

Does that mean I don't have to copy the whole flamingo folder if I reference flamingo as "parent"? This way I could only create a custom named folder within the xwiki/skins folder with the skin.properties file and for example a logo.png file which would replace the flamingo logo.png file.

I don't understand the behavior and the functionality of this inheriting and parent child relation of skins from the articles in the documentation. Why have a parent if I copy the whole skin folder anyways? Regards, sthag

I can file a bug report. Just wanted to add something I forgot to mention and make sure it is still a bug. If I leave the field "parent" within skin.properties empty the error occurs. If I explicitly add flamingo "parent=flamingo" the error does not occur. From the description in the documentation I assumed it is not necessary to add the parent because it is defined in "xwiki.defaultbaseskin" within "xwiki.cfg". Is it a bug or a feature?

Regards, sthag Am 02.05.2017 15:20:52 schrieb Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com Looks like a bug to me. Would be great if you could create an issue on http://jira.xwiki.org and detail the steps to reproduce it. On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 2:50 PM, Interaktionsweise wrote: logo-company.png. described. changes show up with the newly set skin. an error "You are not allowed to view this page or perform this action" after pressing save. see a blank page. neues(a)interaktionsweise.de [mailto:neues@interaktionsweise.de] the Developer's Guide and also Platform Features / Skins. (should be flamingo by now) skin folder and make an example change. Then there is a part about skin.properties. The property "parent" indicates a skin to inherit from. It says that it always has a value, even if I don't explicitly enter one for myself it will inherit from WAR or whatever is configured in "xwiki.defaultbaseskin". reference flamingo as "parent"? This way I could only create a custom named folder within the xwiki/skins folder with the skin.properties file and for example a logo.png file which would replace the flamingo logo.png file. inheriting and parent child relation of skins from the articles in the documentation. Why have a parent if I copy the whole skin folder anyways? -- Thomas Mortagne

On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Interaktionsweise <> neues(a)interaktionsweise.de&gt; wrote: A feature. When you set parent to empty string you explicitly indicate you don't want to inherit any skin (i.e. you disable xwiki.defaultbaseskin). This is actually important for a skin made from scratch (like flamingo which do exactly that) which would be broken if the default base skin is changed.

-- Thomas Mortagne