On 21 May 2014 at 10:08:34, Guillaume Louis-Marie Delhumeau
([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote:
> Thanks to this, Flamingo will now be able to support the old color-themes!
>
> Screenshots:
> http://xwiki.kephpage.net/flamingo/flamingo-default.png
> http://xwiki.kephpage.net/flamingo/flamingo-dusk.png
> http://xwiki.kephpage.net/flamingo/flamingo-mint.png
> http://xwiki.kephpage.net/flamingo/flamingo-ruby.png
> http://xwiki.kephpage.net/flamingo/flamingo-nocolortheme.png
>
> I'll commit it for 6.1M2.
>
> Now, my plan is to write a new Color Theme Editor to be able to edit things
> specific to this skin, create new color themes based upon
> http://bootswatch.com/ and work again on the skin to look closer to the
> initial proposal (with an appbar, etc…).
Cool!
I’m also eager to see a "Favorite Applications” panel and a “All Applications”
panel that can both scale on small and medium panel widths. We also need to
decide how the Application Index will be implemented in Flamingo too :)
Thanks
-Vincent
> Thanks,
> Guillaume
>
>
> 2014-05-19 11:42 GMT+02:00 Guillaume "Louis-Marie" Delhumeau <
> [email protected]>:
>
> > 6 +1, no -1, the vote is passed.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> > 2014-05-15 18:48 GMT+02:00 Marius Dumitru Florea <
> > [email protected]>:
> >
> > +1
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Marius
> >>
> >> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Guillaume "Louis-Marie" Delhumeau
> >> wrote:
> >> > Needs: As you already know, the new skin, Flamingo, is based on
> >> Bootstrap (
> >> > http://getbootstrap.com/) which use a CSS Preprocessor to have more
> >> > flexibility. There is 2 majors competitors in this field: LESS (
> >> > http://lesscss.org/) and SASS (http://sass-lang.com/). Bootstrap is
> >> using
> >> > LESS but they also provide an official port for SASS.
> >> >
> >> > We need to execute one of these preprocessors at the runtime, to
> >> recompile
> >> > the Bootstrap CSS according to the current Color Theme.
> >> >
> >> > After a long thread [1] where we have compared the 2 preprocessors, and
> >> > after some discussions on IRC, **I am proposing you to choose LESS**.
> >> >
> >> > Why:
> >> > * It is the original preprocessor used by Bootstrap, and so the
> >> majority of
> >> > Bootstrap Themes that we can find on the web provides LESS sources. If
> >> we
> >> > want to be able to use all these themes, using LESS is clearly an
> >> advantage.
> >> > * Caty, Denis and I have a bit of experience with it. Bluebird [2],
> >> Junco
> >> > [3] and the current Flamingo skins are built with LESS.
> >> > * The syntax is not too close to Velocity, meanwhile SASS is.
> >> > * The Java integration, using Rhino, works quite well. Although there
> >> is an
> >> > issue [4] for which I have written a patch. I hope the LESS community
> >> will
> >> > handle it.
> >> > * It looks a bit more popular than SASS.
> >> >
> >> > Here is my +1 for using LESS.
> >> >
> >> > For the record, this is what I am going to do:
> >> >
> >> > * Implement a cache to only compile LESS files when needed, because the
> >> > computation is costly. The cache will be flushed only when the current
> >> > color theme is modified.
> >> > * Write new components and a script service to compile LESS files that
> >> are
> >> > present in the skin directory, partially parsed with Velocity. In the
> >> > future, we might want to integrate it directly in the Skin Action, but
> >> that
> >> > means we need to change oldcore.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> >
> >> > Guillaume (Louis-Marie)
> >> >
> >> > ---
> >> > [1] The thread "[Proposal] Integrate LESS css in XWiki":
> >> > http://markmail.org/message/hw45txkv2vk5dnqw
> >> > [2] Bluebird Skin:
> >> > http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Bluebird+Skin
> >> > [3] Junco Skin:
> >> > http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Junco+Skin
> >> > [4] LESS issue: https://github.com/less/less.js/issues/2005
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