[pmwiki-users] Feature request: Action lists in skins

Bronwyn Boltwood arndis at gmail.com
Fri Apr 15 09:26:18 CDT 2005


On 4/8/05, Hans <design at flutesong.net> wrote:
> Friday, April 8, 2005, 10:36:44 AM, Joachim wrote:
> > So I first installed a few skins. Found that some of them had actions in
> > them that weren't installed at that point. Cursed - I'd have to remove
> > the action to avoid confusing my friend, then re-install them as soon as
> > I'd get around to installing those recipes that implemented the action.the layout.
> 
> This sounds like bad skin design. The skin should not show any
> features which require special cookbook scripts, it should be all part
> of the skin package.

Myself, I think it's fine for a skin to work in special features that
require recipes, so long as they tell you what recipes.  Ideally the
skin developer could also provide toggles to hide the UI for said
features, or a version that doesn't include them.

Bronwyn




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