• NewWikiTheme

Hi! If you've found this page you're probably interested in testing our new theme. That's awesome, thanks!

Instructions for Testing

What do I need to know?

It doesn't take much to do, and you don't need any knowledge aside from knowing how to work a web browser; this page will tell you the rest.

How do I change to the new theme?

If you're not currently logged in to this wiki, there's a link called "Log In / Register" under the search box in the top right corner of the webpage you're looking at now.

Once you are logged in, the "Log In / Register" link will be replaced by your name which links to your user settings page. Click on this.

You'll then be directed to a Settings page where you'll want to click on "Preferences"

On the next page you'll see something similar to the below:

Change the "Preferred theme" dropdown box to say "ubuntuwomen" and then scroll down and click save.

Now, in a second tab or window, click around the wiki looking for places that do not look right, and make a note of them below.

How it works

The way the new theme works is that the sidebar and footer are actually regular wiki pages, which means we can edit them. However this means that they are page content so we have to reference them on every page where we want them, we do this by adding: <<Include(Header)>> at the top, and <<Include(Footer)>> at the bottom of each page, which embeds the Header and Footer pages. These pages contain tables of stuff, with specific classes that the CSS file picks up on and formats nicely with the sidebar at the side and the footer below the lowest content on the page. Right now only a few pages such as Profiles have the header and footer in place, but we will be adding more as soon as the theme is made the default. You can do this too! Just edit any page that doesn't have the header and footer and top and tail it with <<Include(Header)>> and <<Include(Footer)>>. It is quite possible that some pages will need special treatment particularly for the sidebar so if it doesn't look right you can either have a go at fixing it, or report it below.

Places that do not look right

• http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Home This page scrolls sideways (the grey bar is too wide!) Fixed:

You may also file a bug to report any issues: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-women.org

Fixing the new theme

Elizabeth Krumbach put out a call for volunteers to help with the site in June 2011 see here. Follow directions there if you wish to participate in helping.

If you have a patch, please follow these instructions to submit it:

You first need to add an SSH public key to your launchpad account, if you haven't done so already. You can do this from here:

https://launchpad.net/+me/+editsshkeys

Then to add your patch, first install the "bzr" package if you haven't done so already:

$sudo apt-get install bzr

Next, check out the mointheme files from the launchpad bzr tree.

$ bzr launchpad-login yourusername
$ bzr checkout lp:~ubuntu-women/ubuntu-women.org/mointheme
$ cd mointheme/

If you don't have the host key for bazaar.launchpad.net, initial checkout will ask you to authenticate. The RSA key fingerprint for this host is: 9d:38:3a:63:b1:d5:6f:c4:44:67:53:49:2e:ee:fc:89

If this checkout fails with a "No branch found" message, it is likely that you are not listed as an ubuntu-women team member.

Make the changes to the file(s) required. If you're fixing multiple bugs please do these in separate steps.

Review changes with:

$ bzr diff

Commit your changes with:

$ bzr commit -m "Fix for LP: #000000"

(copied basic bzr instructions from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PlanetUbuntu)