[TYPO3-dev] Questions relating new Typo3 4.0 beta3 skin

[Thomas Murphy]

Hello Kari,

Kari Salovaara wrote:
> I've looked now this new skin during last 24 hours 18 hours
> and my eyes start to bleed ! Ithe skin is not very ergonomic.
> This is of course very personal opinion so it should not be discussed.

I'm sorry to hear that and hope this is an issue that just might be 
related to being used to the old skin, which means you will get used to 
the old skin.

The contrast topic was always important in the overall design of the new 
skin, as it was a) one of the main reasons why the old skin looked a bit 
old-fashioned compared to a lot of other applications, especially in the 
web-environment but b) also one of the most appreciated things about the 
old skin by a lot of developers, who spent a lot of time in the backend.
But when we compare the new skin to, let's say a word-processing 
application like Openoffice.org we also have a lot of white space which 
of course might be a bit stressing for the eyes, so I think the 
color-benefit of the old skin might just be a personal impression that 
will disappear once people get used to it.

And generally, I think it is not very healthy to look on a computer 
screen for 18 hours, even if it's switched off.

> But serious questions:
> 
> 1) Where I can find documentation how to manage this
> new skin ? At least colors and fonts.

There is no managing functionality in the skin yet, you are of course 
free to make any adjustments to the stylesheets in the extension yourself.
I would recommend waiting with those changes til the release date of the 
Version 4.0, as we're going to change a lot in it til then.

> 2) Has somebody planned to make a BE tool to manage
> colors and fonts for skins? If yes, I'm more than willing to help there.

There are ideas on integrating something into the user settings, but 
nothing planned yet, afaik.

> 3) Is there any other ready-from-shelf skin for 4.0 ?

You can use any of the other publicly available skins in the TER in 
Version 4.0.

bye,
Thomas