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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:

  1. Create a new subdirectory under skins/. (The new directory is called "skins/newskin" below but you should use a new original name, of course.)

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. Edit the BuiltinSkin[] array near the top of the src/skins.c source file so that it describes and references the "newskin" skin.

  5. 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.