Hi Erik,
where can we see your prototipe of what you mean for shitched around search
area?
Did you attach a jpg somewhere?
-Bruno
2011/1/19 Erik Schuessler <e...@brainfood.com>
> 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><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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