Files in directory /skins from the latest check-in of branch trunk
- aht
- ardoise
- black_and_white
- blitz
- blitz_no_logo
- bootstrap
- default
- eagle
- enhanced1
- khaki
- original
- plain_gray
- rounded1
- xekri
- README.md
Built-in Skins
Each subdirectory under this folder describes a built-in "skin". There are four files in each subdirectory for the CSS, the "details" file, the footer, and the header for that skin.
To improve an existing built-in skin, simply edit the appropriate files and recompile.
To add a new skin:
Create a new subdirectory under skins/. (The new directory is called "skins/newskin" below but you should use a new original name, of course.)
Add files skins/newskin/css.txt, skins/newskin/details.txt, skins/newskin/footer.txt and skins/newskin/header.txt. Be sure to "fossil add" these files.
Go to the src/ directory and rerun "tclsh makemake.tcl". This step rebuilds the various makefiles so that they have dependencies on the skin files you just installed.
Edit the BuiltinSkin[] array near the top of the src/skins.c source file so that it describes and references the "newskin" skin.
Type "make" to rebuild.
Development Hints
One way to develop a new skin is to copy the baseline files (css.txt, details.txt, footer.txt, and header.txt) into a working directory $WORKDIR then launch Fossil with a command-line option "--skin $WORKDIR". Example:
cp -r skins/default newskin
fossil ui --skin ./newskin
When the argument to --skin contains one or more '/' characters, the appropriate skin files are read from disk from the directory specified. So after launching fossil as shown above, you can edit the newskin/css.txt, newskin/details.txt, newskin/footer.txt, and newskin/header.txt files using your favorite text editor, then press Reload on your browser to see immediate results.