From my perspective, I don't see much chance in the Flat Grey visual
theme being abandoned. Enough people use it that it will get the
attention it needs. If Ryan isn't available to fix something, I can fix
it. If I'm not available, someone else could fix it, etc.
-Adrian
On 1/6/2011 6:02 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
Ryan,
Your screen copies at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-4092
looks really great! Looking forward for the implementation...
My concerns are that maybe you will not have enough time later to keep
up with possible bugs or other issues. Look for instance what happened
to Bizzness Time https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-2398.
Even if it looks a bit old, we have a theme which works great. Why
taking any risks with it? Also I can't see any issues with having more
themes. The more we have the better, I like to have the choice. Some
(rare) people prefer to use old things, see games machines or
synthesizers for instance (I still love the DX-7 sound
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_DX7
http://www.vintagesynth.com/yamaha/dx7.php)
There are any evolved version of Flat Grey yet. So this could be the 1st
modern one still using the RTL mechanism introduced by Adrian. Just
choice the name!
Thanks
Jacques
Ryan Foster wrote:
IMO I see no reason to have a "Flat Grey Evolution" theme. Adrian is
right, the Flat Grey theme hasn't had a visual update in
years and it looks very dated. It needs some love. Let's not add
another improved version, let's just improve the version we
have now. I think that is more efficient and more beneficial in the
long run.
As far as the tabs go, we can still keep a horizontal, tab-like
navigation without actually having the tabs look like tabs.
Because, the absolutely do look terrible displayed in two rows.
Adrian, I would be happy to collaborate with you on this. I
think I have some ideas that could help. Email me directly if you want
to hash out some ideas outside of this mailing list
discussion.
Consequently, as far as new admin themes go, I guess I can use this as
an opportunity as well to drop a teaser about a new theme
I have been working on already for some time now that I honestly hope
will become the go-to theme for scalability and
customization, and that will eventually replace the Flat Grey theme
altogether. The new theme scales down very well to 800x600
and has minimal styling for maximum flexibility and customization.
Stay tuned for more details in the next few days...
Ryan L. Foster
801.671.0769
cont...@ryanlfoster.com
On Jan 3, 2011, at 11:04 AM, Adrian Crum wrote:
Chiclet refers to a brand of chewing gum. The tabs look like pieces
of Chiclets chewing gum. They look terrible when they are
displayed in two rows.
-Adrian
--- On Mon, 1/3/11, Jacques Le Roux <jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com>
wrote:
By "chiclet" main navigation style,
you mean the tabs? Then I think we should keep Flat Grey as
it is (because there are advantages
to have tabs) and create a Flat Grey evolution...
Jacques
From: "Adrian Crum" <adrian.c...@yahoo.com>
I was thinking we could use colors from the Apache logo
and the BizznessTime theme. I would also like to get rid of
the "chiclet"
main navigation style, and maybe have that menu in a
collapsible left column.
-Adrian
--- On Sun, 1/2/11, Sascha Rodekamp
<sascha.rodekamp.lynx...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
From: Sascha Rodekamp <sascha.rodekamp.lynx...@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: Discussion: Flat Grey Visual Theme
To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org,
"Jacques Le Roux" <jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com>
Date: Sunday, January 2, 2011, 2:27 AM
I really would appreciate to keep the
Flat Gray. But you're right it needs a
few visual improvements.
Let me think about this, maybe somethink comes to
my mind
..... :-)
Cheers
2010/12/29 Jacques Le Roux <jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com>
IIRW, it's the only really RTL capable. So a big YES to keep it,
of course.
I have no ideas though :/
Jacques
From: "Adrian Crum" <adrian.c...@yahoo.com>
The Flat Grey visual theme is getting old.
The current version of the theme is based on the original look
and feel of
OFBiz when I first joined the community - back in 2004. Around
the Spring of
2007 I added some gradient gifs to make the original style a
little more
interesting.
After that, the visual theme was converted to a floating
flexible layout
(to fit any size screen), it was made
sight-impaired accessible (font size
can be changed), and it added support for bi-directional layout
(for rtl
languages). Those design decisions were made by the OFBiz
community and, in
my opinion, continue to make the Flat Grey theme the fallback
theme when all
else fails. It just works.
Despite its advantages, it looks dated. I would like to update
it to make
it more modern, but maintain its advantages over the other
themes. I'm
thinking it only needs css and gif file updates. The current
templates and
javascripts would be maintained.
If anyone is interested, they are welcome to help out. I would also
appreciate any suggestions or comments.
Let me know what you think.
-Adrian
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