Re: OFBiz themes gallery on Confluence

2008-07-14 Thread David E Jones
You're right Adrian, I think I did miss what you were getting at. Are you imagining a new entity called Theme, or perhaps something more specific like VisualTheme or some name like that? This entity would have one or more stylesheet locations associated with it, and perhaps other

Re: OFBiz themes gallery on Confluence

2008-07-14 Thread Adrian Crum
Exactly. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help. I don't want to overlap anything going on in your project. -Adrian --- On Sun, 7/13/08, David E Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: David E Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OFBiz themes gallery on Confluence To: dev

Re: OFBiz themes gallery on Confluence

2008-07-14 Thread Anil Patel
] wrote: Exactly. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help. I don't want to overlap anything going on in your project. -Adrian --- On Sun, 7/13/08, David E Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: David E Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OFBiz themes gallery on Confluence To: dev

Re: OFBiz themes gallery on Confluence

2008-07-14 Thread Adrian Crum
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you'd like to work on this for your own needs, or for the fun of it or whatever is motivating your interest, then go for it! Actually, I would like to work on it for two reasons: 1) We get regular requests for it on the mailing lists, and 2) I could eliminate my

Re: OFBiz themes gallery on Confluence

2008-07-14 Thread Adrian Crum
: OFBiz themes gallery on Confluence To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org Date: Sunday, July 13, 2008, 11:43 PM You're right Adrian, I think I did miss what you were getting at. Are you imagining a new entity called Theme, or perhaps something more specific like VisualTheme or some name like that? This entity would

Re: OFBiz themes gallery on Confluence

2008-07-14 Thread Anil Patel
E Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OFBiz themes gallery on Confluence To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org Date: Sunday, July 13, 2008, 11:43 PM You're right Adrian, I think I did miss what you were getting at. Are you imagining a new entity called Theme, or perhaps something more specific like

Re: OFBiz themes gallery on Confluence

2008-07-14 Thread David E Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: David E Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OFBiz themes gallery on Confluence To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org Date: Sunday, July 13, 2008, 11:43 PM You're right Adrian, I think I did miss what you were getting at. Are you imagining a new entity called Theme

Re: OFBiz themes gallery on Confluence

2008-07-11 Thread Bruno Busco
Ashish, thank you for your comments. Well, of course if the themes are taken from the gallery there should be a information on the theme that tells you with which release of Ofbiz it can be used (now we could go with the SVN rev until we have the next release). For the file overwritting we could

Re: OFBiz themes gallery on Confluence

2008-07-11 Thread Ashish Vijaywargiya
Comments Inline :- On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Bruno Busco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ashish, thank you for your comments. Well, of course if the themes are taken from the gallery there should be a information on the theme that tells you with which release of Ofbiz it can be used (now we

Re: OFBiz themes gallery on Confluence

2008-07-11 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Bruno, Ashish, Having them in separated directories, why not introduce a property in general.properties file (or somewhere else) to select the theme at will, default being the one we use currently ? Jacques From: Bruno Busco [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ashish, thank you for your comments. Well, of

Re: OFBiz themes gallery on Confluence

2008-07-11 Thread Ashish Vijaywargiya
+1 On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 4:21 AM, Jacques Le Roux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruno, Ashish, Having them in separated directories, why not introduce a property in general.properties file (or somewhere else) to select the theme at will, default being the one we use currently ? Jacques

Re: OFBiz themes gallery on Confluence

2008-07-11 Thread Adrian Crum
At the last developers conference, I had suggested to David Jones that we have a CSS Style Sheet Shootout - where different OFBiz developers could submit their themes to Jira and we could vote on them. The one with the most votes would get committed to the project. At the time there was too

Re: OFBiz themes gallery on Confluence

2008-07-11 Thread David E Jones
This is really much easier than it seems, and actually a couple of weeks ago I got a couple of people at Hotwax started working on some themes and some HTML/CSS enhancements to make the skinning more flexible. The plan we're thinking of is to use the existing the ProdCatalog stylesheet

Re: OFBiz themes gallery on Confluence

2008-07-11 Thread David E Jones
Good question/point We're mainly just looking at skinning the ecommerce application, ie the OOTB templates. Something similar for the internal apps would be interesting... are you thinking of something like a personal preference? For that we could do something like specify or upload

Re: OFBiz themes gallery on Confluence

2008-07-11 Thread Bruno Busco
I was originally thinking to the backoffice theme only but of course what you are now proposing is FAR better. The only thing that I would like to add is that the backoffice theme selection should be not dependent on the product application but only on the user preferences system. -Bruno

Re: OFBiz themes gallery on Confluence

2008-07-11 Thread David E Jones
The ProdCatalog thingy is really only for the ecommerce site. For manager application styling and preferences it would be serious hack... -David On Jul 11, 2008, at 9:58 AM, Adrian Crum wrote: Well, the system we implemented here is set up with an XML file that has a selection of themes

Re: OFBiz themes gallery on Confluence

2008-07-11 Thread Jacques Le Roux
BTW I have added a comment about recent UI discussions in http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/User+Interface+Layout+Best+Practices?focusedCommentId=4729#comment-4729 It's already out of date :o) But I think it still can help Jacques From: Bruno Busco [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was originally

Re: OFBiz themes gallery on Confluence

2008-07-11 Thread Adrian Crum
Agreed. But do we want duplicate implementations? Maybe we can come up with a framework implementation that eCommerce builds on. Let's say the framework has a system of selecting themes. Then in eCommerce, instead of specifying a stylesheet in the ProdCatalog, you could specify a theme. The

Re: OFBiz themes gallery on Confluence

2008-07-11 Thread David E Jones
It depends on the requirements and what we want to design for each thing. For ecommerce the common requirement is to let the people running the store decide what it will look like, with possibly different LF for different sets of products (ie different catalogs). Would (does?) anyone

Re: OFBiz themes gallery on Confluence

2008-07-11 Thread Adrian Crum
I think you missed something. Or maybe I wasn't clear enough. eCommerce would work exactly like you described, the only difference being instead of configuring a catalog or store to use a stylesheet, you configure it to use a theme. User selected themes aren't used in eCommerce. On the back

Re: OFBiz themes gallery on Confluence

2008-07-11 Thread Jacques Le Roux
From: David E Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] It depends on the requirements and what we want to design for each thing. For ecommerce the common requirement is to let the people running the store decide what it will look like, with possibly different LF for different sets of products (ie

Re: OFBiz themes gallery on Confluence

2008-07-11 Thread Bruno Busco
Yes more than a stylesheet! A theme should be a folder containing one or more css files and all the gif, jpg used. I have used sometime phptemplate and it is provided of a powerfull way to override php functions by simply putting in the theme folder a php file with a certain name where certain

OFBiz themes gallery on Confluence

2008-07-10 Thread Bruno Busco
Hi devs, I am writing a new maincss.css file and I will submit when finished. I think that several other users/developers will write (or have already) their .css files. Since the graphical theme is something very subjective it will be difficult to agree with a unique theme and have it committed

Re: OFBiz themes gallery on Confluence

2008-07-10 Thread Ashish Vijaywargiya
Bruno, I like your idea. -- Ashish On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 1:37 AM, Bruno Busco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi devs, I am writing a new maincss.css file and I will submit when finished. I think that several other users/developers will write (or have already) their .css files. Since the

Re: OFBiz themes gallery on Confluence

2008-07-10 Thread Ashish Vijaywargiya
Sorry for writing again on this. But I see a loopwhole in this. Suppose you are creating new maincss.css file. Someone has downloaded your file and kept your file in images directory and removes the old one. Now if user take update of Ofbiz on regular basis or we can say after certain duration of