Re: Updated Flat Grey Visual Theme (was: [jira] Commented: (OFBIZ-4120) Umbrella task for features which use javascript to degrade gracefully)

[Erik Schuessler]

Title: Brainfood

This is a nice clean theme. I am happy to help out on polishing up the look and feel. One thing that has always bugged me for user interface is the search area. It seems like we could modify the search area as an expandable bar over a side menu, when I have used the back end, the catalog browse is more useful to me over some of the advanced search options. Granted, the main search is very useful so it gets priority, however the but all of the advanced searches are not. I have attached a picture of what I am talking about. Just my two bits. Thanks Erik One issue that I would like to see change is to move the On 1/17/2011 4:41 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote: 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 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? ;) -- Erik A. Schuessler Creative Partner   Street Address: 4004 East Side Ave. Dallas, TX 75226 www.brainfood.com   TEL: 214.720.0700 e323 MOBILE: 214.893.3514 FAX: 214.893.3514 EMAIL: e...@brainfood.com