EXT: Improved t3skin

Extension Key: t3skin_improved

Copyright 2006-2007, Kirill Klimov, <kirill@goldenplanet.com>

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The content of this document is related to TYPO3

- a GNU/GPL CMS/Framework available from www.typo3.com

Table of Contents

EXT: Improved t3skin	1

Introduction	1

What does it do?	1

Screenshots	1

Users manual	3

Administration	3

Configuration	3

Known problems	3

To-Do list	3

Changelog	3

Introduction

What does it do?

This extension fixes some current problems of default TYPO3 skin (t3skin). Also there are some small additions to make it even better like roll-over highlighting.

Suppose some day these fixes could go to the t3skin itself. Some kind of summary of changed/improved places:

changed highlighting colour for active and roll-over module in module list;

changed highlighting colour for active, added highlighting roll-over colour (TYPO3 4.0.x) for pages in PageTree and files/folder in FileList;

added highlighting roll-over colour for a lot of places. Here are some:
List module: highlighting of single row , highlighting of selected button, highlighting for top menu of options for current page,
Access module: highlighting of single row + highlighting of selected button,
Click menu: highlighting of menu element,
Extension manager: highlighting of single active row,
User Admin: highlighting of single active row.

improved contrast (even comparing with t3skin 0.0.2);

added highlighting of input fields at BE login page (doesn't work in IE);

improved a little usability of lists (List module, Access module, etc) by adding some extra space around rows.

Screenshots

Here are some screenshots, so you could see how it looks like.

New icons for different page-types in the page tree, active page and roll-over highlighting. Comparison with t3skin.:

Left navigational frame with modules: “List” is current (active) module, “Functions” is highlighted (roll-over). Comparison with t3skin.:

Fileadmin, with “css” as selected folder and highlighting of “media” folder. Comparison with t3skin.:

List module:

in comparison to t3skin:

Users manual

Just install the extension and it is ready for use.

Administration

To install the extension just go Extension Manager, import and install it. Nothing more should be done, it will work from now.

As far as extension brings improvements to t3skin, it is required to be already installed.

Configuration

There is only 1 configuration setting - Modern icons in Filelist. You could set in in the Extension Manager. By default this setting is enabled, so updated icons in the File>Filelist are active, however you could turn that off if you don't like so many orange colour in the FileList.

Known problems

Extension is not desired to be used with any TYPO3 skin (other then t3skin), behaviour could be unexpected – I do not advise to do this.

User “truni” has reported some problem deal with kj_imagelightbox2 and t3skin, however I can't reproduce it and need more feedback on this.

To make roll-over highlighting in PageTree and FileList possible in TYPO3 4.1 and higher without use of XCLASSes change in TYPO3 core is needed. You could find more info in the feature request. If you also think this feature is important and is needed, you could add your comments in the bugtracker issue.

To-Do list

Currently checking what could be done for further improvements. Feel free to send your suggestions.

To-do Issues known for now:

- add possibility to visually separate (with background colour or whatever else) different pages in pagetree in BE by specifying some page property.

Changelog

Check ChangeLog in root folder of extension for complete list of changes.

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