I guess it really just comes down to the approach. The objective of the task
was to update the Flat Grey theme. So, I approached the design as a realign
rather than a redesign. I did not look at any other themes as examples, I
simply focused on how Flat Grey looked and functioned and then tried to make
the smallest amount of CSS and markup changes possible in order to achieve the
objective and stay with the scope of the task.
I understand your bias, because I have it as well, as probably every other
active OFBiz developer does. But for the average user, the vast majority are
going to select one language, one time zone, and one theme and then never touch
this section again. Also, for a developer deploying OFBiz across a large
organization, they may even decide to set these preferences globally across the
entire organization and not allow the user to have these selections. In that
case, it becomes much easier for them because they can simply disable the
footer in the theme and it does not affect anything else at all.
Ryan L. Foster
801.671.0769
cont...@ryanlfoster.com
ryanlfoster.com
On Jan 17, 2011, at 11:07 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
> Ryan Foster wrote:
>> That was exactly what I was trying to do. It seemed even more weird to me
>> to have theme selection and language in the header,
>> but have timezone selection in the footer and to have half of the
>> application links in the header and the other half in the
>> footer. The new grouping is much more logical in my opinion. All of the
>> applications are now grouped together in the header,
>> and all of the user preference selections, which are secondary, are grouped
>> together in the footer.
>
> That was true for the old Flat Grey but what about how it's handled in
> Tomahawk for instance. Maybe I'm biased though because for testing purpose
> I'm always switching languages and themes... BTW the time zone selection is
> missing in Tomahawk...
>
> Jacques
>
>> Ryan L. Foster
>> 801.671.0769
>> cont...@ryanlfoster.com
>> ryanlfoster.com
>>
>> On Jan 17, 2011, at 7:30 AM, Adrian Crum wrote:
>>
>>> Ryan can answer that question. I believe he was trying to keep the masthead
>>> small so there is more room for the main content.
>>>
>>> -Adrian
>>>
>>> --- On Mon, 1/17/11, Jacques Le Roux (JIRA) <j...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>> Also I asked
>>>> {quote}
>>>> BTW I was surprised that Ryan and you put the access to
>>>> preferences and languages features in the footer. It's not
>>>> always visible and seems a bit weird to me
>>>> {quote}
>>>>
>>>> Any answers? ;)
>
>
