Question

(Beside the default skin there is GnuSkin installed in our TWiki)

• TWiki version: 01 Dec 2001

-- JorinaFreyaGerken - 18 Feb 2003

Answer

See TWikiSkins#Activating_Skins. The search order is TWikiPreferences, then WebPreferences, and then the user topic. The last searched topic has the highest priority.

A user would only set the SKIN variable in their user topic if they didn't want to use the one the administrator had specified. If SKIN is not set in any of the three places it defaults to 'SKIN = twiki'.

-- MattWilkie - 18 Feb 2003

First of all thank you for responding so quickly! Yet I do not feel my question fully answered. Maybe I did not pose it well. What I actually wanted to know is: When do I have to set the variable SKINHANDLER in the user settings, too?

-- JorinaFreyaGerken - 20 Feb 2003

Oh, I think I understand now. SKINHANDLER is a variable introduced by TigerSkinPlugin and adopted by GnuSkin, it is not part of the main twiki distribution. I don't know anything about it. You may have better luck asking about this in the GnuSkinPluginDev topic.

-- MattWilkie - 20 Feb 2003

Thank you, I will try it there.

-- JorinaFreyaGerken - 21 Feb 2003