Yes that makes sense. And anyway if they prefer another theme they have now the
choice. It's ok with me
Jacques
Ryan Foster wrote:
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
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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
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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? ;)
