On 03/20/2012 04:11 AM, FredG wrote:
Hi,
First of all +1 for the nice design and layout in your attached screenshot.
I really like having the most important actions in the header bar.
If it's OK for you, I'll add a link back to this thread from
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/UI+Enhancements
which already lists a lot of ideas how the UI can be improved.
Communication-wise, the best channel would be the #jenkins channel
on the Freenode IRC network.
That and this mailing list.
And random comments after playing with the current prototype. The usual
caveat apply that I'm not a UX person:
- The menu of the top banner doesn't seem very useful to me. Right now
it always shows the same 4 things from the action menu of the top
page, which is probably not what you intended. But even if it changes
per page, I think it'd end up just repeating what's on the left.
- I liked our recent breadcrumb that sticks to the top of the page.
- I'd love to merge this with domi's color palette change to kill
two birds in one stone.
- I'd be interested in seeing some YUI buttons replaced by their
counterparts in Bootstrap to see how they'd look.
- Ditto for warning messages.
- Because it uses fluid layout, when my screen width is small (say less
than 1000px, so it's not *that* small), the main portion drops below the
left bar. I'm not too keen on that.
Bugs (I'm on Chrome/Linux):
- configuration page layout is quite broken
- search box didn't work.
Regards,
Fred
On Tuesday, March 20, 2012 9:25:23 AM UTC+1, Tom Bevers wrote:
I already have forked jenkins and done some work in branch here:
https://github.com/tombevers/jenkins
My github Id:
https://github.com/tombevers<https://github.com/tombevers/jenkins>
What's the best communication channel to communicate over the work and backward
compatibility?
On Tuesday, March 20, 2012 12:57:41 AM UTC+1, Kohsuke Kawaguchi wrote:
On 03/18/2012 03:55 AM, Tom Bevers wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I really like Jenkins and use it daily, but one thing annoys me and
that's
> the GUI. It's not that user friendly and doesn't look good.
> I hoped that would have been changed after the logo design contest as
> www.jenkins-ci.org has gotten a new design aswel as the bug tracker.
>
> I want to contribute so we can make the GUI better and faster, and I
have
> some proposal:
>
> - Use Twitter Bootstrap<
http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/index.html> and
> change the colors a bit to match the Jenkins colors
> - Clean up current HTML
> - Remove all inline styling (Include CSS in the head)
> - Remove all inline javascript (Include at the bottom)
> - Create sprite images wich results in less http calls
>
> I already tried to use the twitter bootstrap wich results directly in a
> better looking Jenkins GUI (see the attachment).
Thanks. Would you be interested in creating a branch and doing the work
there? It's great that you are interested in working on it, and I think
there are things I can help in ensuring backward compatibility, etc.
I'm also trying to decompose monolithic style.css and
hudson-behaviour.js and co-locate them via tag files so that we can see
related code more quickly, which I think is relevant to this effort as
well.
On top of that, there are other committors like Ohtake-san and Domi, who
I suspect have some opinions about these things!
Let me know your GitHub ID so that we can set things up.
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