[qiang]

Skin usage: http://www.yiiframew...cs.theming#skin

Should we keep this feature in 2.0? If few people are using this feature, I'm thinking to drop this feature for better performance.

[CeBe]

I'd rather say we should merge skins and themes so that there is only one thing that allows overwriting/replacing views.
So if CTheme allows theming of widget views, we could leave the skins behind.

[Haensel]

Agree, I've never used widget skins either

[Da:Sourcerer]

+1 by me. I found it a neat feature but never actually used it.

[yiqing95]

me too , never used it

[Junior - df9]

I thing that as long as we have a way to customize the looking of widgets inside a theme, no problem removing that. I mean, if Yii looks inside themes/themename/components/views to render the widget view, cannot see why to keep the feature.

To sum it up, I have also never used it and performance matters too much, agreed removing feature!

Regards

[twisted1919]

I use widgets too much in my projects, but i never used the skins feature, so i think it's safe to be removed.

[Psih]

I think that the same functionality is easily achievable inside a widget with an additional param telling witch view to render, but that's quite rare and tends to be specific functionality for specific cases. So just get rid of it - "I have a need, a need for speed" © Top Gun

[yugene]

+1
for never used it

[Seal]

It's funny, I never used theme either. I was put off from the reality that skin may degrade performance.

@CeBe - I like the suggestion of merging skin and themes.

@Qiang, is this a possible?

[Dart]

Here's a yes vote. I use skins all the time.

This post has been edited by Dart: 20 May 2012 - 04:14 PM

[Narretz]

Dart, on 19 May 2012 - 06:06 PM, said:

Here's a no vote. I use skins all the time.

I guess you mean a "yes" vote. Or are skins so horrible that you want to get rid of them?

[Dart]

Narretz, on 20 May 2012 - 12:21 PM, said:

I guess you mean a "yes" vote. Or are skins so horrible that you want to get rid of them?

Edited. I use them to set global parameters for widgets, especially themeUrl and theme.

[yugene]

I never used skins before as I stated in my previous comment, but they are used in the project I started to work on recently, so I'd like to add a bit changed opinion

I should admit, it's a very convenient feature in some cases, though, if it degrades performance significantly, I still think it's better to get rid of it, at least in such implementation.
Also, occasionally I found this really nice article by Dana Luther, which describes possible skin usages. This article made me to think one more time if there's definitly no need in skins .

[Antonio Ramirez]

Never used...