Forum:I can't seem to choose what skin I want

Firstly, I must say that if I appear rude or violent it's because I am quite angry, secondly the contact wikia option is crap because you get a really, really tiny box. I will also give some background on myself to help with understanding in the nature of my issue, and that is I have bad eyes, bight colors are painful for me to read, or not really...painful, but a white page on a wikia project is like staring into a bright light and trying to read. On to my problem, I am not a fan of the monaco skin, at all, but that's not so much as the issue as...I can't choose the one I want. No matter what color or style I choose, I get Monaco gaming, which has darker colors and is nice, but more often then not causes problems in various templates and pages using special set ups styled to other formats. If I choose monobook (which is my prefered choice across the board, but the Dollhouse wiki looks horrible in Monobook (due to the styling of the panels and width and such). What could be causing things to switch on me and not let me choose what I want so I can customize, and why can't I choose on a per wiki basis?--Terran Officer 04:59, September 28, 2009 (UTC)

Toward the bottom of the page Special:Preferences is a check box labeled
 * Let the admins override my skin choice. (recommended)

If that is checked then your skin preference will be overridden at any wiki community where the administrator(s) have specified a default skin. If you clear that check box then your preferred skin will be used at all wikis you visit. --najevi 06:01, September 28, 2009 (UTC)


 * Btw, we're going to increase the size of the Special:Contact box :) 13:46, September 29, 2009 (UTC)

Thanks to both users for posting a response, and I must apologize for taking so long to respond in kind in this topic. I have unchecked (and rechecked) the override option, unchecked is when it goes to the Monaco Gaming which if you are going to customize (as I understand) will cause some issues (unless that had been fixed and the help area's were not updated). It doesn't seem to matter what I choose, unless I choose Monobook (and while that is my preferred choice, there are a few wiki's I take part in which look horrible in Monobook), I get Monaco Gaming when I try to move away from the preferences page. When the override choice is selected I do get the wiki in questions current selected skin, but when I look at the preferences page the Monaco gaming looks to be selected. Normally this isn't so much of an issue per se except for my bad eyes I need to customize for darker colors and as I mentioned I have read (and somewhat experienced) that customization when using the Monaco Gaming skin cause's issues. I am not certain what I am supposed to do here or if there is a problem somewhere relating to my account nor am I certain if anything can really be done (short of making a new account, which I don't really want to do). If there's any insight or I am not being clear please let me know, thanks in advance for potential responses.


 * So, I believe the issue is you seem to be stuck on Monaco Gaming. This is apparently true, your preferences are indeed set to the Gaming theme - are you not able to choose a different theme (e.g. sapphire) from the top half of the skins tab on your preferences? If so, can you let me know what browser you are using, and if you have any issues with changing other settings? 17:45, October 12, 2009 (UTC)
 * Edit: so I can reproduce this issue. Investigating... 17:48, October 12, 2009 (UTC)

Yes, this is so, no matter what I choose I cannot seem to pick something else out to properly skin a wiki to custom appearance, which can be bothersome when I want to use Sapphire and skin it using what I have learned doing so for the Dollhouse wiki. The browser I use is Firefox, the latest version and to my knowledge there's no addons added save for Adblock Plus (1.1.1) and Java Quick Starter (1.0). On a slightly different note, how come you cannot pick a skin per wiki, and how come the only way to use a custom appearance for a project is to have the admin override on? An interesting aspect might be to somehow let people use a wiki's appearance if it suits them or to be able to make their own custom without screwing things up elsewhere. Sorry for the massively delayed response, life has a habit of taking completely over. --Terran Officer 02:41, October 23, 2009 (UTC)


 * Hmm, I can't reproduce the issue - can you give me exact steps, and where it goes wrong?
 * We don't have wiki-specific skin options as your user preferences are all Wikia-wide. It's something I recognise as a flaw in the system, but it can be very complex to explain to users, so it is only likely to come with an overhaul of user preferences. 15:01, October 23, 2009 (UTC)

There's nothing to it, regarding what I do, and where it goes wrong in regards to my skin preferences. I simply turn off the administrator override, select one of the Monaco skins and press submit. Everything looks fine and dandy at first, I have the appearance I want, but then when I change the page, it goes to the gaming version of the skin. I can't really think of anything else I may or may not be doing in order to create such an issue such as this, and as for the user preferences, I suppose I can understand that, but it still bites, because some wiki's have some decent skins (custom) and some do not. I suppose I could simply use the gaming as is, and then custom what I need but that's something I was hoping to avoid on the wiki's where it really wouldn't be needed (such as Dollhouse or Memory Alpha). The only big deal I am making out of this, is the fact that I cannot read very well with bright backgrounds, hence wanting to be able to customize on the wiki's I tend to read/contribute to. --Terran Officer 23:22, October 25, 2009 (UTC)


 * Have you tried clearing your cache? - Brandon Rhea (talk) 02:18, October 26, 2009 (UTC)