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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 GNU Hurd Wiki web, but is now easily available to other people as well. See the historic notes, below, for more trivia.
The GnuSkin is conceived to be simple and functional, providiing a basic, yet useful environment suitable for production use. It uses the WebMenu concept, first introduced by the TigerSkin?, and reintroduces the WEBLOGO idea making it possible to completely tailor fit the looks of the TWiki.
See it in action on the Hurd Wiki web at http://vmlinux.org, http://vmlinux.org/twiki/bin/view/Hurd/.
Features:
- User configurable navigation bar on the left hand side, content on the right
- Top menubar including the main features of the TWiki
- Per web configurable logotypes.
Installation:
See GnuSkinInstall for details of download and installation instructions.
Plugins:
The GnuSkin comes with a plugin - see GnuSkinPlugin - which acts as a kind of engine. It inserts items such as the left hand menu by reading the WebMenu topic.
The GnuSkin can also be used with the SessionPlugin? - it then allows logon and session management.
History
Originally the idea of using a skin different from the original TWiki look was born on the Hurd wiki. Unfortunately the available skins and plugins where either too bloated or only designed for one type of user agent in mind.
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.
The design was inteded to more like a general GNU web page with a lean & simple interface, yet still good looking and stylish. At the time the Hurd website modeled for the looks and on top of that a few bells and whistles from TWiki was added.
Contact
For help and advice, please email JoachimNilsson?, or make use of the GnuSkinPluginDev public forum.
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