I'm against the idea of widgets controlling styling. Period. I am
against Nicolas or any other developer deciding which icons get used and
where - that is a decision that should be reserved for theme designers.
To summarize my view:
1. Icon display and the choice of icons should be left to the theme
designer. Therefore, icon references should be kept in stylesheets.
2. If a theme designer wants to give the user an option to use icons or
not, then the theme's templates can conditionally load a cascading
stylesheet that includes icons.
-Adrian
On 4/25/2011 5:14 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
On a second thought, we may use another technology than CSS and still
have styles, see for instance in POS: posstyles.xml. So yes,
styles add flexibility and independence.
At 1st glance, Adrian's proposition sounds better from flexibility
POV. But, if I have well understood, is still limited to icons or
not in the whole OFBiz (like Google bar) when Nicolas's allows to set
it by screens (why not even by form fields or menu entries?)
I think this is really an important point in UI and should be
discussed by the whole developers community, any other opinions,
suggestions?
Thanks
Jacques
From: "Adrian Crum" <adrian.c...@sandglass-software.com>
You can control icon display through user preferences without
embedding the icons in markup. A user setting can conditionally load
a stylesheet that references the icons.
I'm not against having new icons in the project. An expanded
selection of icons is a great tool for theme designers to use. But
their use should be determined by the theme designers - not by screen
widgets. The OFBiz community has worked hard over the past 4
years trying to get styling out of markup and into stylesheets. I
will push hard against any effort to reverse that.
-Adrian
On 4/25/2011 1:32 AM, Nicolas Malin wrote:
Adrian I understand your remark but I'm not completely in agreement
with that.
Icons is at once of the most visual but also a help user. We could
associated directly to a themes but the reality is more
complex. If I take the GTK project, every user can define if he
wants icons, icons and text or only text independently of the
themes.
On issue OFBIZ-4259 I do an error to use icons through img because
although they are images, they are a more complex management.
I'm not for their exploitation only through css or style because
although they results from it. We limit their display rendering
on one technology et style don't allow user preference managment.
I propose to continue icons integration, add a new element in screen
renderer that indicates what icons use on menu and form
field. Thence following the user preference and then the themes we
display icons or not. Whether rendering css by then or
treatment with an image, it will be template renderer are made
their work.
Nicolas
Le 25/04/2011 05:21, Ryan Foster a écrit :
I thought the original idea that Nicolas proposed, was for this to
be configurable by theme (adding a
layoutSettings.VT_ICONS_LOC to data config). I think that you
should be able to turn icons on and off as well as change the
icon library location.
Ryan L. Foster
801.671.0769
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ryanlfoster.com
On Apr 24, 2011, at 6:29 AM, Adrian Crum wrote:
The main problem I have with this is the idea that theme design
has been taken away from the theme designer. In other words,
icons should be added by the theme designer - they should not
appear in all themes by default.
-Adrian
On 4/24/2011 5:26 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
It's actually related to
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-4259 and r1095984
I did not see any issues in Flat Grey, could you post a screenshot?
If it's really blocking (I doubt we can't fix any related
issues), it should be easy to configure with a property in
widget.properties to bypass image rendering in menus
(HtmlMenuRenderer.java around line 500) and buttons
(MacroFormRenderer.java look for
submitField.getImageLocation(context) or maybe rather
ModelFormField.java but this one
existed before, see
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1095984 for
files changed)
Jacques
From: "Adrian Crum"<adrian.c...@sandglass-software.com>
I see that icons were added to menu items - maybe in rev
1088549. Is there a chance we can revert that? Or at least make it
configurable on a per-theme basis? The new icons break the
layout in the Flat Gray theme. It would be helpful if a theme can
choose to use the icons or not use them.
-Adrian
