Re: [orion-dev] branding Orion

[Rafael Chaves <rafael@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

After getting a gentle nudge from Carolyn in the context of bug 439081, I started a how-to wiki page on branding Orion:

https://wiki.eclipse.org/Orion/How_Tos/How_to_brand_Orion

As you can see, it has only some headings but no actual content - as I have no idea of how to brand Orion myself, even though there seems to be evidence in Bugzilla there is actually some support for branding. 

Current sections:

1 Customizing the Orion front-page logo
2 Customizing the Orion front-page graphics
3 Customizing the Orion login/front-page color scheme
4 Customizing the Orion login/front-page window title
5 Customizing the Orion window title
6 Customizing the email templates
7 Customizing the set of plug-ins Orion instance starts with

If you know how to do any of those things, please chime in. If you want to know how to do other kinds of customization, please add placeholder sections for them so Orion developers or others extending Orion can provide guidance.      

Cheers,

Rafael

On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Rafael Chaves <rafael@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi all,

Is there any documentation (assuming the mechanism is there) on how to brand an Orion-based site? 

In the past, I used to hack the Orion install and tweak some user facing strings, replace images etc with some of my own, and change the built-in list of plug-ins. But that quickly got old, as I would have to go through the same exercise every time I adopted a new Orion release.

I asked a similar question on the newsgroup a while ago:

https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/362477/

and it still is the first hit when googling "eclipse orion branding" so I guess if work was done on this area it is not documented yet.

Thanks,

Rafael