Last modified: 2010-04-09 09:07:43 UTC
Hello, Right now I am testing the "Classic" skin on Wikimedia Commons, which has some interesting features like the display of categories at the top of the page rather than at the bottom, which is good for picture categorizing jobs. However, I discovered that some of the gadgets I previously used (like the "tineye" tab, the "catscan" tab) are no longer available, although they are kept selected in my user preferences. I perfectly understand that it is not possible (at least for the time being) to have all gadgets available for all skins. But the availability of gadgets for a given skin (or the other way round: the availability of a skin while keeping the possibility of using a given gadget) should be predictable when the user selects his preferences. For that purpose, a compatibility table showing skins in rows and gadgets in columns (or the other way round) should be provided so that the user knows what to expect before changing his preference settings. The status for the compatibility between a skin and a gadget could have three values : * perfectly compatible (the gadget developer said he tested that compatibility) * not compatible (the gadget developer said he tested and found out it is not compatible) * you may try at your own risk (we don't have information on that compatibility issue) Another possibility would be to have a popup warning saying "you can't change that skin unless you remove that gadget preference" or "you can't add that gadget unless you switch to another skin", or "we are not sure if your skin change will keep your gadgets alive", or "we are not sure if that gadget your are choosing now is compatible with the skin you are using".
>However, I discovered that some of the gadgets I previously used (like the >"tineye" tab, the "catscan" tab) are no longer available, although they are >kept selected in my user preferences. I'd imagine a significant portion of incompatible gadgets would work if addPortletLink was modified to be compatible with the older skins. (have no idea if thats worth the effort) As for a compatibility chart, as it stands there is no way for the software to know which gadget is compatible with what, so such a chart would probably have to be made at your local wiki, as every wiki has different gadgets.
It's global_append_tab what is not working. See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Extra-tabs.js I have improved it to work with quickbar, so it now works for all skins but nostalgia (and I'm not sure where should they be added there or even if they should). Closing as FIXED.
Thanks Platonides for the fix (it works fine now). To Bawolff : I was wondering if the layout of the preference page was not hard coded within mediawiki, and if something like an empty table had not be coded in Mediawiki, before asking every local gadget developer to fill it. If everything can be changed on the local wiki, I will try to make my suggestions there, then.
