Ok, sounds good. I can't wait to see it. We are planning our site now so I'm trying to hold off until I see how Rave is doing it.
Chris On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Drozdetski, Stan A. <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > > > > >
