Customization
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This customization modifies Mantis default visual style to use The
CentOS Project visual style. Once you install the customization
provided here, the visual transition between your mantis website and
other web sites customized the same way will be easy to recognize
because the implementation of common visual patterns (e.g.,
background, header, logo, favicon and footer).
How To Install
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1. yum install mantis-1.1.8-5.el5
NOTE: This require you to have EPEL repository installed in your
CentOS distribution. To know how to install the EPEL repository
read http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories
2. Configure mantisBT application and be sure it works as you expect.
In this step you create the database you'll use to store data, connect
the mantis application with it and install the tables using the web
interface.
3. Copy the theme files provided in this customization into your
system's mantisBT tree, as root user. The source-target relation
between files is shown in the following table:
------------------+-----------------------------------------------
SOURCE | TARGET
------------------+-----------------------------------------------
bottom.html | /usr/share/mantis/themes/centos/bottom.html
top.html | /usr/share/mantis/themes/centos/top.html
stylesheet.css | /usr/share/mantis/themes/centos/stylesheet.css
------------------+-----------------------------------------------
This theme also provides a customized version of mantis_offline.php
file that you can copy into /etc/mantis/ directory when you want to
get mantis' site off-line for maintenance.
4. Check file permissions. Be sure these files are readable by apache
web server. For example, if both user and group for these files are
set to `root', then the `-rw-r--r--' rights are ok for all these
files.
5. Update your configuration file. Be sure it has the following
information:
# --- html variables --------------
$g_window_title = "The CentOS Bugs";
$g_top_include_page = "themes/centos/top.html";
$g_bottom_include_page = "themes/centos/bottom.html";
$g_css_include_file = "themes/centos/stylesheet.css";
$g_favicon_image = "/webenv/images/favicon.ico";
6. Point your browser to mantisBT install and reload it to see the
changes.
Package Updates
---------------
An important characteristic of this theme is that all modifications
take place in the configuration file and CSS files. No PHP files
inside the mantis package needs to be modified (except the
configuration file, of course.). This way you can update the mantis
package without loosing the visual style you already set for it.
The only problem I've found is the $g_favicon_image variable, which
doesn't work. So, if you want to have a favicon different from
Mantis's default, you need to overwrite Mantis' images/favicon.ico
file with the one you want to use. This is something you need to do
the next time you update the matnis package (unless the
$g_favicon_image variable gets alive).
Images affecting Mantis visual style were moved from images directory
inside the Mantis directory structure to /var/www/webenv/images
directory outside Mantis directory structure and made accessible
through /webenv http alias. Using images this way let us to re-use
them with other web applications that share the same visual style.
When a visual style update is required, we only need to change images
in a single place to propagate the new visual style to all
applications.
Feedback
--------
Your comments and suggestions are very welcome. In fact, we need them
to make this work better. Thus, feel free to send e-mails to
centos-devel@centos.org mailing list or fill a ticket at
https://projects.centos.org/trac/artwork/newticket page.
Authors
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The following people have contributed efforts to this theme:
* Alain Reguera Delgado <alain.reguera@gmail.com>, 2013