| Jdlrobson | |
| Jan 12 2022, 7:14 PM |
| F34915895: Screen Shot 2022-01-12 at 11.13.30 AM.png | |
| Jan 12 2022, 7:14 PM |
An admirable goal of the desktop improvements project would be to make a third-party install distinguishable from a Wikimedia-deployed install to aid Wikimedia branding (a larger goal would be for the Vector skin to use non-Wikimedia themed icons)
One small way to realize that goal might be to make the Vector background a slightly off white color, out of the box
e.g.
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Default Vector install has off-yellow background | mediawiki/skins/Vector | master | +4 -1 |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | Feature | Ladsgroup | T301527 Consider making Vector 2022 the default skin for MediaWiki 1.41 | ||
| Open | None | T299080 Third party Vector installs should look different from Wikimedia deployed |
Change 753551 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jdlrobson; author: Jdlrobson):
[mediawiki/skins/Vector@master] Default Vector install has off-yellow background
Change 753551 abandoned by Jdlrobson:
[mediawiki/skins/Vector@master] Default Vector install has off-yellow background
Reason:
See patchdemo and phab ticket
From design systems perspective, I'd rather focus on the mediawiki.skin vars expansion to be provide a more end-user-friendly (exchanging values instead of writing full CSS dealing with MW/skin/extensions complexities) and quicker way to style a default theme.
Just changing the background-color is not delivering much besides making the default out-of-the-box experience worse.
This doesn't seem high priority since it no longer blocks the 1.35 release and hasn't seen activity since the beginning of Feburary so I've moving it out the board. Perhaps this should this be declined?
Test wiki on Patch demo by Jdlrobson using patch(es) linked to this task was deleted:
Removing inactive assignee. (Please update such things as part of offboarding - thanks.)