Your plan looks good. Will look forward to working on it after GSoC. Bhargav Golla Developer. Freelancer. B.E (Hons.) Computer Science BITS-Pilani Github <http://www.github.com/bhargavgolla> | LinkedIN<http://www.linkedin.com/in/bhargavgolla> | Website <http://www.bhargavgolla.com/>
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Dan Haywood <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Bhargav, > Thanks for the offer. Yeah, the priority is medium-ish, so could well fit > in once GSoC is done. I'll do some spikes to see how the work might break > out. > > Right now my thoughts are: > 1. strip the app back to have no CSS, ie work on the bare "DOM" > 2. add in the full bootstrap CSS/JS. > 3. work through the Wicket components one by one, reworking to use > bootstrap. The integration that Cuneyt flagged [1] looks promising. Some > of those more challenging refactorings would be to remove wicket-select2 > (for dropdown/choices/autocomplete) and use their type-ahead, the date/time > picker (I do like the one we have currently), the menu rendering, and the > table sorting. Hopefully the others will be easier, and might be areas > where you could contribute. > > Cheers > Dan > > [1] https://github.com/l0rdn1kk0n/wicket-bootstrap > > > > > > On 3 September 2013 18:59, Bhargav Golla <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If we are concentrating on viewers, it would definitely be a good idea to > > incorporate Bootstrap into Wicket Viewer. If we the priority of this is > not > > very high, I can offer to take it sometime post GSoC along with some help > > with Bootstrap. > > > > Regards > > > > Bhargav Golla > > Developer. Freelancer. > > B.E (Hons.) Computer Science > > BITS-Pilani > > Github <http://www.github.com/bhargavgolla> | > > LinkedIN<http://www.linkedin.com/in/bhargavgolla> > > | Website <http://www.bhargavgolla.com/> > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 12:13 AM, Dan Haywood > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > A few days back [1] Ezequiel asked a question about how to style the > CSS > > in > > > Wicket viewer, and Oscar provided a few pointers (thanks for that, by > the > > > way...). Even so, my suspicion is that restyling the look and feel of > > the > > > whole app is a lot more work than it ought to. > > > > > > At the same time, in the recent work I did on dynamic layouts > [2,3,4,5], > > I > > > introduced a dependency on the Bootstrap library [6], just for the grid > > > layout. > > > > > > But, it seems to me that we could probably refactor the Wicket viewer > to > > > adopt all of the Bootstrap components. Given that Bootstrap supports > > LESS, > > > a custom skin could be implemented just by using Bootstrap's > > customization > > > page [8]. Or, there are lots of pre-built themes out there eg [9,10]. > > > > > > So, what do people think? Is this a piece of work worth doing? (And, > > > would anyone be interested in helping out if so... :-) > > > > > > Cheers > > > Dan > > > > > > > > > > > > [1] http://markmail.org/message/tdidddjuher6yqac > > > [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ISIS-468 > > > [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ISIS-469 > > > [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ISIS-470 > > > [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ISIS-475 > > > [6] http://getbootstrap.com/ > > > [7] http://getbootstrap.com/css/#grid > > > [8] http://getbootstrap.com/customize/ > > > [9] http://bootswatch.com/ > > > [10] https://wrapbootstrap.com/ > > > > > >
