>-----Original Message----- >From: Chris Geer [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 5:06 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Customizing Bootstrap via LESS > >Stan, > >I just reread your proposal. Are you planning on condensing the existing >rave.css, bootstrap.css and bootstrap-responsive.css into a single rave.css >file?
Sounds like there would just be a series of less files that get compiled into rave.css; which I think will work for most people's needs. If there is a desire from someone using Rave to NOT use less or bootstrap, they are still free to define their own stylesheet. WDYT? > >Chris > >On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Drozdetski, Stan A. ><[email protected]>wrote: > >> Dennis, we (MITRE) are also very keen on getting this done quickly. We've >> started experimenting already, and should start committing code next >week. >> Sounds like you're very much interested, so we might find ways to combine >> forces. >> >> Stan Drozdetski >> MITRE >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Dennis van der Laan [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 10:43 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Customizing Bootstrap via LESS >> >> On 26-4-2012 23:21, Drozdetski, Stan A. wrote: >> > OK, we previously decided that we'll try to customize Bootstrap >> "properly", and use LESS to recompile source Bootstrap files (along with >> our customizations) to create CSS. >> > >> > Here's a draft proposal on the mechanics of doing that: >> >http://wiki.apache.org/rave/ArchitectureTopics/FrontendCustomization/Boot >strapCustomization >> > >> > Will this meet your needs? Or, perhaps more importantly, will it meet >> the needs of future Rave integrators? >> > >> > Stan Drozdetski >> > MITRE >> > >> Hi Stan, >> >> I know I probably should not be asking this, but I really want to >> know... Do you have any idea when this way of customization will be >> available? We are at the point of integrating a new look (-and-feel) >> into Rave for our University portal and I waited for the bootstrap-merge >> to make sure we wouldn't get our hands dirty with the 'old' css and >> html. Your proposal looks like less work (pardon the pun), but if it >> will take a few weeks before this will be available, we will have to >> start next week. >> >> TIA >> Dennis >> >> -- >> Dennis van der Laan, MSc >> Centre for Information Technology >> University of Groningen >> >>
