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Bug 6908 - Special:Mystyle and Special:Myscript
Special:Mystyle and Special:Myscript
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Special pages (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Lowest enhancement with 5 votes (vote)
: ---
Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
: easy, patch, patch-need-review
: 12485 15822 22971 42589 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
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Reported: 2006-08-03 01:32 UTC by Danny B.
Modified: 2012-11-30 21:38 UTC (History)
15 users (show)

See Also:
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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


Attachments
adding [[Special:Mystyle]] and [[Special:Myscript]] (1.49 KB, patch)
2007-11-18 22:31 UTC, Danny B.
Details
add monobook as a special case (2.15 KB, application/octet-stream)
2008-10-04 15:17 UTC, Mike.lifeguard
Details
re-try (2.15 KB, patch)
2008-10-04 15:19 UTC, Mike.lifeguard
Details
adds getSkinName() to remove the special case (3.97 KB, patch)
2008-10-05 19:12 UTC, Mike.lifeguard
Details
It adds the functionality of Special:Myscript and Special:Mystyle (2.40 KB, patch)
2012-02-12 06:28 UTC, akshay chugh
Details
It adds the functionality of Special:Myscript and Special:Mystyle (2.64 KB, patch)
2012-02-12 07:21 UTC, akshay chugh
Details

Description Danny B. 2006-08-03 01:32:32 UTC
Please add Special:Mystyle and Special:Myscript as complements to Special:Mypage
and Special:Mytalk.

Although simple using of Special:Mypage/monobook.css or
Special:Mypage/monobook.js is possible at the moment, prosposed special pages
should reflect on user's actual skin. 

Therefore simple general linking to user's style/script instead of list of links
by skin would be possible.

Thanks

Danny B.
Comment 1 Danny B. 2007-11-17 14:54:18 UTC
bug 11456 related
Comment 2 Danny B. 2007-11-18 22:31:50 UTC
Created attachment 4352 [details]
adding [[Special:Mystyle]] and [[Special:Myscript]]
Comment 3 Aryeh Gregor (not reading bugmail, please e-mail directly) 2007-11-18 22:48:30 UTC
* Patch needs to use getSkinName() to get skin names, not nonexistent getName()
* Doesn't seem to work at all for Monobook, this needs to be fixed
* Patch doesn't apply cleanly to trunk; are you using an up-to-date copy of the software?
Comment 4 Danny B. 2008-01-02 18:28:47 UTC
*** Bug 12485 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Aryeh Gregor (not reading bugmail, please e-mail directly) 2008-01-02 18:32:31 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> * Doesn't seem to work at all for Monobook, this needs to be fixed

This is because Monobook doesn't initialize the skinname, stylename, or template member variables until SkinMonoBook::initPage() is called.  Someone needs to either use a different way than getSkinName() to do this, or figure out if it's possible to safely move the skinname initialization in MonoBook.php to happen at construction time.
Comment 6 Chad H. 2008-10-04 14:50:01 UTC
*** Bug 15822 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Mike.lifeguard 2008-10-04 15:17:37 UTC
Created attachment 5384 [details]
add monobook as a special case

Adding monobook as a special case works, but the underlying issue (comment 5) should probably be looked at.
Comment 8 Mike.lifeguard 2008-10-04 15:19:25 UTC
Created attachment 5385 [details]
re-try
Comment 9 Agbad 2008-10-04 19:11:26 UTC
I think there is a problem.
The default skin is Monobook, but I think we can change it. If we will change it in a web, then we need to write if "$wgUser->getSkin()->getSkinName()" is null, so the computer need to return the title to the CSS/JS page of the default skin in the web.
Comment 10 Mike.lifeguard 2008-10-05 02:42:27 UTC
Needs review. Kind, loving review.

I'm willing to fix this if I can, so I've assigned it to myself I guess.
Comment 11 Mike.lifeguard 2008-10-05 19:12:10 UTC
Created attachment 5391 [details]
adds getSkinName() to remove the special case

A few skins didn't have getSkinName(), so this adds it where it doesn't exist already. Should fix this for the standard skins no matter what skin you're using.
Comment 12 Aryeh Gregor (not reading bugmail, please e-mail directly) 2008-10-24 04:00:51 UTC
First some specific comments (mostly nitpicks, except the second point):

> 		'Mytalk'                    => array( 'SpecialMytalk' ),
>+		'Myscript'					=> array( 'SpecialMyscript' ),
>+		'Mystyle'					=> array( 'SpecialMystyle' ),
> 		'Mycontributions'           => array( 'SpecialMycontributions' ),

Spaces are being used for indentation here, not tabs, so that it aligns correctly regardless of tab width.  That should be kept for the new entries.

>+		return Title::makeTitle( NS_USER, $wgUser->getName() . '/' . $wgUser->getSkin()->getSkinName() . '.css' );
>...
>+		return Title::makeTitle( NS_USER, $wgUser->getName() . '/' . $wgUser->getSkin()->getSkinName() . '.js');

Should this be makeTitleSafe, with error handling?  What happens if the username plus skin name add up to more than 251 bytes or so?  What if the skin name contains crazy characters?

> class SkinChick extends SkinTemplate {
>+
>+	function getSkinName() {

No need for the blank line here (or for any of the others).

>+		return "chick";

For strings where no interpolation is needed, single quotes are better style (and for all the others).


More general issue: this doesn't work for custom skins.  If they inherit from MonoBook, for instance, they would direct to monobook.css, which is wrong.  The name should come from whatever is used by the bit of code that loads user CSS and JS.  In fact, Skin::getSkinName() appears to be the function that's used, so whatever you're doing looks wrong.  The problem is that the $skinname member variable is for some reason not initialized at this point.  You should figure out why that is, initialize it, and then use getSkinName() without trying to manually override it and duplicate the info that's already set in $skin->skinname.
Comment 13 Mike.lifeguard 2008-11-22 19:20:27 UTC
(In reply to comment #12)
> First some specific comments (mostly nitpicks, except the second point):
> 
> > 		'Mytalk'                    => array( 'SpecialMytalk' ),
> >+		'Myscript'					=> array( 'SpecialMyscript' ),
> >+		'Mystyle'					=> array( 'SpecialMystyle' ),
> > 		'Mycontributions'           => array( 'SpecialMycontributions' ),
> 
> Spaces are being used for indentation here, not tabs, so that it aligns
> correctly regardless of tab width.  That should be kept for the new entries.
> 
> >+		return Title::makeTitle( NS_USER, $wgUser->getName() . '/' . $wgUser->getSkin()->getSkinName() . '.css' );
> >...
> >+		return Title::makeTitle( NS_USER, $wgUser->getName() . '/' . $wgUser->getSkin()->getSkinName() . '.js');
> 
> Should this be makeTitleSafe, with error handling?  What happens if the
> username plus skin name add up to more than 251 bytes or so?  What if the skin
> name contains crazy characters?
> 
> > class SkinChick extends SkinTemplate {
> >+
> >+	function getSkinName() {
> 
> No need for the blank line here (or for any of the others).
> 
> >+		return "chick";
> 
> For strings where no interpolation is needed, single quotes are better style
> (and for all the others).
> 
> 
> More general issue: this doesn't work for custom skins.  If they inherit from
> MonoBook, for instance, they would direct to monobook.css, which is wrong.  The
> name should come from whatever is used by the bit of code that loads user CSS
> and JS.  In fact, Skin::getSkinName() appears to be the function that's used,
> so whatever you're doing looks wrong.  The problem is that the $skinname member
> variable is for some reason not initialized at this point.  You should figure
> out why that is, initialize it, and then use getSkinName() without trying to
> manually override it and duplicate the info that's already set in
> $skin->skinname.
> 

I totally do not understand what you are saying here. I think this is basically beyond my abilities, so I'm removing myself from assigned.
Comment 14 Alexandre Emsenhuber [IAlex] 2010-03-27 07:16:57 UTC
*** Bug 22971 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 15 xenocidic 2010-10-06 15:34:47 UTC
Isn't this now "resolved" by the [[Special:Mypage/skin.css]] and [[Special:Mypage/skin.jss]] functionality?
Comment 16 Mike.lifeguard 2010-10-06 17:04:12 UTC
(In reply to comment #15)
> Isn't this now "resolved" by the [[Special:Mypage/skin.css]] and
> [[Special:Mypage/skin.jss]] functionality?

Obviously not - read comment 0.
Comment 17 Mike.lifeguard 2010-10-06 17:05:52 UTC
(In reply to comment #15)
> Isn't this now "resolved" by the [[Special:Mypage/skin.css]] and
> [[Special:Mypage/skin.jss]] functionality?

Sorry, that's actually true (though I do wonder what happens if you have a subpage called skin.css...)
Comment 18 Bawolff (Brian Wolff) 2010-10-06 19:17:10 UTC
(In reply to comment #17)
> (In reply to comment #15)
> > Isn't this now "resolved" by the [[Special:Mypage/skin.css]] and
> > [[Special:Mypage/skin.jss]] functionality?
> 
> Sorry, that's actually true (though I do wonder what happens if you have a
> subpage called skin.css...)

Thats an enwikipedia-only js hack, not a fix for the bug. (And to answer your question, the redirect does not happen if you have a subpage named /skin.js ( resp .css)).

However with that said, you can do special:mypage/common.css (resp. js) as user:Myname/common.css (resp. .js) is loaded for all skins (as of 1.17), which in my mind is a fix to this bug.
Comment 19 Danny B. 2010-10-06 20:34:25 UTC
(In reply to comment #18)
> (In reply to comment #17)
> > (In reply to comment #15)
> > > Isn't this now "resolved" by the [[Special:Mypage/skin.css]] and
> > > [[Special:Mypage/skin.jss]] functionality?
> > 
> > Sorry, that's actually true (though I do wonder what happens if you have a
> > subpage called skin.css...)
> 
> Thats an enwikipedia-only js hack, not a fix for the bug. (And to answer your
> question, the redirect does not happen if you have a subpage named /skin.js (
> resp .css)).
> 
> However with that said, you can do special:mypage/common.css (resp. js) as
> user:Myname/common.css (resp. .js) is loaded for all skins (as of 1.17), which
> in my mind is a fix to this bug.

It is not fix. It is just a workaround. And it actually doesn't solve the requested thing. Reopening.
Comment 20 DieBuche 2011-04-14 10:12:26 UTC
Is this still relevant with common.css/.js around?
Comment 21 Krinkle 2011-04-15 11:47:59 UTC
I'd say no, since some version ago subpages and several parameters are preserved, the following works:

[[Special:Mypage/common.js]]
[[Special:Mypage/common.css]]


(as does any other subpage for that matter, such as linking to a specific skin)
Comment 22 MZMcBride 2011-04-15 12:56:25 UTC
(In reply to comment #20)
> Is this still relevant with common.css/.js around?

Yes. The opening comment was about a 301 redirect from Special:Myscript to the user's active user script subpage and a 301 redirect from Special:Myskin to the user's active user skin subpage. Neither of these have been implemented.

Using common.js/common.css as a workaround feels like a hack and has been rejected by the opening poster already (comment #19). Re-opening.
Comment 23 Bawolff (Brian Wolff) 2011-04-15 16:36:07 UTC
(In reply to comment #22)
> (In reply to comment #20)
> > Is this still relevant with common.css/.js around?
> 
> Yes. The opening comment was about a 301 redirect from Special:Myscript to the
> user's active user script subpage and a 301 redirect from Special:Myskin to the
> user's active user skin subpage. Neither of these have been implemented.
> 
> Using common.js/common.css as a workaround feels like a hack and has been
> rejected by the opening poster already (comment #19). Re-opening.

In that case can someone provide a use case for when you'd want to be able to write generic instructions for adding stuff to the personal js of the skin you are on, no matter what skin it is, but not have that css/js be applied to all skins.


The original use case of - To add userscript foo to your account go to [[special:myscript]] and add line importScript("whatever") - doesn't apply anymore since any such instructions would want to use [[special:mypage/common.js]].
Comment 24 Krinkle 2011-04-17 19:22:52 UTC
(In reply to comment #23)
> 
> The original use case of - To add userscript foo to your account go to
> [[special:myscript]] and add line importScript("whatever") - doesn't apply
> anymore since any such instructions would want to use
> [[special:mypage/common.js]].

Exactly, and if the script in question would be monobook specific (or whatever) it would link to [[Special:MyPage/monobook.js]].
Comment 25 Sumana Harihareswara 2011-11-08 14:30:18 UTC
Adding the "reviewed" keyword since in comment 12 Aryeh reviewed the patch.
Comment 26 Bawolff (Brian Wolff) 2011-11-08 21:10:06 UTC
I'm lowering importance of this since 7 months have gone by without anyone presenting a usecase.
Comment 27 akshay chugh 2012-02-12 06:28:21 UTC
Created attachment 9990 [details]
It adds the functionality of Special:Myscript and Special:Mystyle

here i am getting the value for the skin name from the global varibale $wgDefaultSkin which could be modified in LocalSettings.php
Comment 28 akshay chugh 2012-02-12 07:21:06 UTC
Created attachment 9991 [details]
It adds the functionality of Special:Myscript and Special:Mystyle

Compared to the patch which i submitted before this one checks for the user skin preferences , and with the current version of mediawiki it would work with custom skins as well(as all the skins are listed in preferences->appearance items)

so here instead of using $wgDefaultSkin which would have to be modified by the user in LocalSettings.php for to make a change in their skin it would be better to use
$this(SpecialPage object)->getUser()->getSkin()->getSkinName() as it takes care of the overridden skin parameters as well.
Comment 29 akshay chugh 2012-02-12 07:28:58 UTC
(In reply to comment #28)
> Created attachment 9991 [details]
> It adds the functionality of Special:Myscript and Special:Mystyle
> 
> Compared to the patch which i submitted before this one checks for the user
> skin preferences , and with the current version of mediawiki it would work with
> custom skins as well(as all the skins are listed in preferences->appearance
> items)
> 
> so here instead of using $wgDefaultSkin which would have to be modified by the
> user in LocalSettings.php for to make a change in their skin it would be better
> to use
> $this(SpecialPage object)->getUser()->getSkin()->getSkinName() as it takes care
> of the overridden skin parameters as well.

getRedirect()- just ignore the $wgUser global variable(its not used anywhere in this function)
Comment 30 Sumana Harihareswara 2012-02-12 09:14:23 UTC
Comment on attachment 5391 [details]
adds getSkinName() to remove the special case

Patch reviewed; Akshay's patch, attachment 9991 [details], obsoletes this.
Comment 31 Sumana Harihareswara 2012-02-12 09:15:02 UTC
Comment on attachment 9990 [details]
It adds the functionality of Special:Myscript and Special:Mystyle

Patch obsoleted by attachment 9991 [details], 3 minutes later. :-)
Comment 32 Sumana Harihareswara 2012-02-12 09:17:43 UTC
Akshay, thanks for the patch.  To indicate that your new patch needs review, and that it is now the best and newest patch you've suggested, I:

* marked the other patches on this bug "obsolete" (click Details, then Edit Details, then check the obsolete button and enter an explanation in the comments box)

* changed the "reviewed" keyword to "need-review"

Otherwise, code reviewers get confused.  So you can do this yourself, the next time you are updating a patch you've suggested, or adding a patch to a bug where there was previously a patch that's already been reviewed and rejected.

Thank you!
Comment 33 Krinkle 2012-02-29 01:48:41 UTC
Repeating earlier thread with arguments:

(In reply to comment #24)
> (In reply to comment #23)
> > The original use case of - To add userscript foo to your account go to
> > [[special:myscript]] and add line importScript("whatever") - doesn't apply
> > anymore since any such instructions would want to use
> > [[special:mypage/common.js]].
> 
> Exactly, and if the script in question would be monobook specific (or whatever)
> it would link to [[Special:MyPage/monobook.js]].

So what is the use case of linking to the script-page of the currently logged user's skin preference? (in addition to linking to a specific skin or the load-in-all skins script)

(In reply to comment #26)
> I'm lowering importance of this since 7 months have gone by without anyone
> presenting a usecase.


As such, suggesting WONTFIX.
Comment 34 MZMcBride 2012-02-29 06:01:41 UTC
(In reply to comment #33)
> As such, suggesting WONTFIX.

Okay.
Comment 35 Sam Reed (reedy) 2012-11-30 21:38:35 UTC
*** Bug 42589 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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