Re: QEMU wiki theme table of contents changes

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 03:48:12PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 02:54:29PM -0500, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 07:38:06PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 02:21:12PM -0500, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 at 03:54, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> 
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 02:04:35PM -0500, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > > > > > On Thu, 14 Nov 2024 at 05:51, Daniel P. Berrangé 
> > > > > > <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Looking at
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >   https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/9.2
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I'm thinking that I'm sure there used to be a table of contents 
> > > > > > > present
> > > > > > > at the top of pages, but none is to be seen..... until I 
> > > > > > > eventually
> > > > > > > discover that there's a bare noticable, fully collapsed ToC in 
> > > > > > > the left
> > > > > > > hand nav panel below all the general wiki nav links, partially 
> > > > > > > off the
> > > > > > > bottom of the page :-(
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > If going to https://wiki.qemu.org/Special:Preferences, 
> > > > > > > "Appearance" and
> > > > > > > selecting "Vector legacy (2010)" as the "Skin" instad of "Vector 
> > > > > > > (2022)"
> > > > > > > then the full ToC re-appears at the top of page in the main body 
> > > > > > > content.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I'm presuming this style change was triggered by a software 
> > > > > > > upgrade that
> > > > > > > was done on the wiki at some point.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > IMHO this is quite a significant visual/usability regression.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On wikipedia, they do have the same theme, with ToC in the left 
> > > > > > > hand
> > > > > > > panel, but their ToC is expanded by default, and there's no other 
> > > > > > > general
> > > > > > > navigation in the left hand panel that's displacing the ToC off 
> > > > > > > the bottom
> > > > > > > of the page. That is fairly effective as a layout.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > We can do something to the QEMU skin to improve this ? Swapping 
> > > > > > > order
> > > > > > > of the ToC & general nav blocks in the left hand panel would be a
> > > > > > > improvement, as well making it expand at least 1 further level by
> > > > > > > default.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > If we're going to have background colour set for the general nav 
> > > > > > > block,
> > > > > > > we should also probably do similar for the ToC nav block to make 
> > > > > > > it
> > > > > > > visually stand out to the same degree.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Yes, that sounds good. The quickest would be for you to:
> > > > > > 1. Run https://hub.docker.com/_/mediawiki/ in a container on your 
> > > > > > machine.
> > > > > > 2. Adjust the theme CSS until you are happy.
> > > > > > 3. Send me the tweaks and I will apply them to wiki.qemu.org.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is the current QEMU mediawiki code (or just theme) published anywhere
> > > > > that I can base work off ?
> > > > 
> > > > The QEMU wiki runs from the vanilla mediawiki 1.39 container image.
> > > > The Vector (2022) theme comes with Mediawiki and there are no
> > > > QEMU-specific customizations.
> > > > 
> > > > You can get the same look with the vanilla Mediawiki container image
> > > > with the following in LocalSettings.php:
> > > > $wgDefaultSkin = "vector-2022";
> > > > wfLoadSkin('Vector');
> > > 
> > > Hmm, I'm wondering where the QEMU specific left nav bar content
> > > and styling comes from then... ? 
> > 
> > I'm not sure but unless there is something stored in the database, I
> > can't imagine any customizations because there aren't any config files,
> > themes, CSS overrides, etc to speak of in QEMU's MediaWiki installation.
> > It's just running the vanilla container image.
> 
> Ah, I found out  we've done it with the side-bar addon
> 
>   https://wiki.qemu.org/MediaWiki:Sidebar

Is there a fix I can apply to the wiki configuration?

Stefan

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