Chris - yes, that's basically the plan. We'll set up LESS compilation so that Bootstrap files will be combined with Rave customizations to produce rave.css.
-----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? 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/BootstrapCustomization > > > > 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 > >
