Getting started with Manakin
One of the things my students don’t know yet, because it completely slipped my mind to tell them last week, is that I will in fact be doing their final project with them.
I asked them to investigate and then either implement or plan for a technology that is unfamiliar to them. And timing worked out such that I now have a Manakin-enabled DSpace test server to mess with.
The Manakin theme tutorial is pretty good so far, though it’s mildly frustrating that the xmlui.xconf file (like the dspace.cfg file) is the Special File that has to be changed in the running directory, rather than in source. If you’re working with a fresh copy of the code in Eclipse as I am, that makes the tutorial look wrong, because there’s a config directory inside Manakin with the xmlui.xconf file in it.
Ugh, complicated goofiness. But I believe I have created space for a new theme, and so on I go.
Oh, and I made a new category for Manakin grumblings and squees. I expect to emit many of both.