[daisy] [skin2] Poll for participation and input

[Andreas Deininger]

2007/9/25, Marc Portier <mpo at outerthought.org>:
> Hi all,
>
> Daisy's 1.5 release introduced a new skin with many advantages to the
> previous one. I've got the feeling some new work in this area is due,
> and I'm hoping to tap into the available graphical design expertise
> available here on the list.
>
> For those that fit that description the motivation to participate should
> come from some OSS logic that predicts that those that influence this
> work most (by injecting their experience, ideas, needs, code,..) will
> gain the most...
>
>
> So here's the open goal:
>
>    Anyone some ideas for a new daisy skin?

Are you aware of YAML: http://www.yaml.de/en/home.html ?
YAML based templates are available for quite a few other CMS, so why
not implementing it for Daisy, too?
http://www.yaml.de/en/community/cms-templates.html
I recently used these a YAML based template for a TYPO 3 based site,
and that worked out quite well.

>    Success/horror stories with skinning Daisy or other systems?
>    Suggestions on things to be changed/added/... ?

Above your are talking about a new daisy skin. Wouldn't it be better
to implement something like a skinning or templating system, maybe
with a default (official) skin provided from the daisy developers? My
vision is that others from the community can contribute their skin(s)
too, so that the daisy user has the choice between different skins. If
I look at the Drupal site, they have a broad variety of themes
available (http://drupal.org/project/themes). Right now, I don't see
how one could easily contribute his own template to the daisy
community.

Regards
Andreas