See it in action on the Hurd Wiki web at http://vmlinux.org, http://vmlinux.org/twiki/bin/view/Hurd/.

• Top menubar including the main features of the TWiki

• Per web configurable logotypes.

The idea of the GnuSkin was born. It started out as a rip off the famous TigerSkin^?. Since then almost all of the templates have been remade, leaving only the Perl plugin part relativly unchanged.

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Welcome to the GnuSkin

So named because of the hidden Gnu head and, of course, its simplistic design. It was originally designed for the Hurd Wiki web but is now easily available to other people as well. See the historic notes, below, for more details.

Features:

• User configurable navigation bar on the left hand side, content on the right

• Top menubar that including the main features of TWiki

• Per web configurable top logotypes.

Installation:

• Unpack the skin package inside your TWiki installation directory.

• Edit the WebMenu topic to set the contents of the menu bar.

• Add the following line to TWikiPreferences or to any WebPreferences topic

      * Set SKIN = gnu

• If using multiple skin handlers then the following line needs to be included in TWikiPreferences to set the TWiki wide default or in a specific WebPreferences topic to use the Gnu Skin handler only for that Web.

      * Set SKINHANDLER = Gnu

• Note: If this is the first (and only) skin handler the TWiki skin handler defaults to procssing the SKIN unless SKINHANDLER is set to some value besides Gnu.

Stuff: The TigerSkin^? comes with a plugin - see TigerSkinPlugin^? - that inserts items such as the left hand menu. It uses the plugin to read the WebMenu topic, etc.

The TigerSkin^? can be used (optionally) with the SessionPlugin^? - it then allows logon and session management.

• A configurable left hand menu bar - the contents can be set in an editable WebMenu topic - one for the TWiki web and optionally one for other webs. See WebMenuFormat for details. , supplied one cover TWiki, Main and Test Webs

Add a setting to the WebPreferences page, the LOGO variable indicates what logo to use.

• Set LOGO = %PUBURL%/%MAINWEB%/LogoTopic/logo.gif

Please note:

• The TigerSkin^? is designed for use with IE 5.0 and 5.5 - not (yet) Netscape compatible. Although this version provides initial integration of the NS

• The TigerSkin^? purposely avoids using different colors for different webs - we think that this is desconcerting to novice users.

• The TigerSkin^? needs a TWiki beta release dated after 27 Jul 2001

• The TigerSkin^? uses the new http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/TWikiTemplatingSystem

An example logo is attached to this page - just download and edit to make your own logo. It should be named logo.gif. The overall site logo lives as an attachment hereto, individual web logos should be placed in pub/webname/logo.gif. Please be sure to acknowledge TWiki.org appropriately.

For help and advice, please email SteveRoe^? or JohnTalintyre^?

GnuSkin Settings

Plugin settings are stored as preferences variables. To reference a plugin setting write %<plugin>_<setting>%, i.e. %EMPTYPLUGIN_SHORTDESCRIPTION%

• One line description, is shown in the TextFormattingRules topic:
  • Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = Supports TigerSkin^?

• Max number of revisions to show on drop down menu
  • Set NUMREVISIONS = 5

• Debug plugin: (See output in data/debug.txt)
  • Set DEBUG = 0

History

This is the GnuSkin plugin. It's designed to more like a general GNU web page and less like the TigerSkinPlugin^?.

Lean & simple and yet still good looking and stylish.

-- JoachimNilsson^? - 04 Jun 2002

• Beta screenshot, June 4th, 2002 - 09:44 CET:
  

The GnuSkin design is a rip-off the Hurd website, mainly with a few bells and whistles from TWiki added. The author is yours truly with a lot of help from the community at large.

See the GnuSkinPlugin page for more information on the GnuSkin features.

-- JoachimNilsson^? - 27 May 2002