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Cheers,
Ruppert
On Jan 19, 2011, at 12:51 PM, Erik Schuessler wrote:
> Excellent. I can come up with a design improvement comp to get started.
>
> What do you all think about the idea of switching around the search areas? It
> is a user interface thing.
>
> Thanks
>
> E
>
> On 1/18/2011 11:48 AM, Adrian Crum wrote:
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated! Just create a Jira issue and upload your
>> images/patches there. I've been applying little tweaks here and there, but
>> I'm no artist - so I would feel more comfortable with an artist making the
>> changes instead of me.
>>
>> -Adrian
>>
>> On 1/18/2011 9:27 AM, Erik Schuessler wrote:
>>> 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? ;)
>>>>
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