I am a fan of Foundation's look (or Bootstrap even)... http://foundation.zurb.com/
3d elements make it look dated, kind of like it does now. The less images, the better imo. On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Kelcey Jamison Damage < kel...@backbonetechnology.com> wrote: > Hmm, maybe cut 2 copies... 1 with icons, and 1 just a clean text look. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ilya Musayev" <imusa...@webmd.net> > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 4:08:50 PM > Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] UI: New look and feel > > Brian, > > Are we no longer using icons on the left navigation menu or is this a > draft? > > Thanks > ilya > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kelcey Jamison Damage [mailto:kel...@backbonetechnology.com] > > Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 6:28 PM > > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] UI: New look and feel > > > > You just made my day, these look great. Most importantly it has a look > that > > will sell to IT managers, etc. > > > > I wish you the best of luck with this and hope for rapid progress :) > > > > Again, it looks awesome! > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Brian Federle" <brian.fede...@citrix.com> > > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > > Cc: "Sonny Chhen" <sonny.ch...@citrix.com>, "Animesh Chaturvedi" > > <animesh.chaturv...@citrix.com>, "Jessica Wang" > > <jessica.w...@citrix.com> > > Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 3:11:07 PM > > Subject: [DISCUSS] UI: New look and feel > > > > Hi all, > > > > In addition to the CSS code cleanup I'm working on, I am planning a > 'reskin' of > > the current UI to give a better user experience and look and feel. This > will > > utilize SASS and a grid system as I have discussed in the previous > thread. > > > > I created a task in JIRA and wiki functional spec, which has screenshots > of > > what I've done so far and what I plan to do: > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Update+UI+visu > > al+appearance > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-4748 > > > > You can also checkout the ui-restyle branch on git, if you are able to > manually > > compile the cloudstack.scss file via SASS (that will be automated in the > > future). I can send over instructions on how to compile SASS manually; > it's > > pretty easy to setup. > > > > Let me know what you think so far :) I'll of course up and post more > > screenshots as I get more done. This reskin is only changing the CSS > mainly, > > with minimal changes to actual usage or JS code, so it is basically a > drop-in > > replacement for the current styling. I'm hoping to get this in by 4.3, > so please > > give me feedback on anything from the current UI you don't like or want > > changed, and I can see about improving it. > > > > Thanks! > > Brian > > > >
