Re: Roller UI Ideas (Was Re: ApacheCon CFP closes June 25)

2014-07-08 Thread Glen Mazza
On 07/03/2014 02:17 AM, Gaurav Saini wrote: Correct, it looks odd that for new blogger it will not show the tag cloud. Rather than removing we can put a condition that if more than 5 tags comes than we can show that complete box/panel of hot tags. Oh, I didn't realize a tag cloud will appear i

Re: Roller UI Ideas (Was Re: ApacheCon CFP closes June 25)

2014-07-04 Thread Glen Mazza
Hi Greg, I don't think the theme.xml needs to be altered for that, it would be redundant...the presence of multiple theme definitions automatically should mean that both templates are active, based on their element. Below is part of the theme.xml for the basic theme: Weblog

Re: Roller UI Ideas (Was Re: ApacheCon CFP closes June 25)

2014-07-04 Thread Greg Huber
What I could will do is add an element into the theme.xml to control whether there is a second theme available for the templating engine, and update the theme/stylesheet edit classes accordingly to not show the mobile tab. I think these edit programs use the YUI css tab. Are we sticking with YUI?

Re: Roller UI Ideas (Was Re: ApacheCon CFP closes June 25)

2014-07-03 Thread Gaurav Saini
Hello Glen, I like the idea of support a 2nd UI library in Roller. Foundation is another which we can have in roller (http://foundation.zurb.com/). There are also a lot of people using these library. I can build another Roller Theme in future using foundation, so that way we will be having Bo

Re: Roller UI Ideas (Was Re: ApacheCon CFP closes June 25)

2014-07-03 Thread Glen Mazza
On 07/03/2014 04:07 AM, Greg Huber wrote: The mobile theme will switch automatically if you view with a mobile device, the button is there as a preview and example. Use an user agent switcher. Thanks, I did not realize that, and it would be nice for Roller to architecturally maintain that fu

Re: Roller UI Ideas (Was Re: ApacheCon CFP closes June 25)

2014-07-03 Thread Glen Mazza
On 07/03/2014 02:17 AM, Gaurav Saini wrote: 2.) The fauxcoly theme uses YUI (Yahoo User Interface) stored in webapp/roller-ui/yui, but the YUI is from 2009. I'd like to have it replaced with the latest release YUI. The YUI we ship with Roller is not just for fauxcoly, but for any YUI-based

Re: Roller UI Ideas (Was Re: ApacheCon CFP closes June 25)

2014-07-03 Thread Greg Huber
5.) Shelan, another contributor around 2010 created a mobile weblog view for a blog, as you can see in the upper-right corner here: http://www.nailedtothex.org/roller/kyle/entry/nested-list-element-issue-of1 . The mobile theme doesn't seem to work right today (that blog entry at that link shows th

Re: Roller UI Ideas (Was Re: ApacheCon CFP closes June 25)

2014-07-02 Thread Gaurav Saini
Hello Glen, Its great that we now have a good solid backend foundation for roller. As, you said we can now improve the front-end side of roller with the changes you mentioned below. I am sharing below my ideas about the points you mentioned. On Thursday 03 July 2014 07:19 AM, Glen Mazza wrot

Roller UI Ideas (Was Re: ApacheCon CFP closes June 25)

2014-07-02 Thread Glen Mazza
Hi Gaurav, I've been working heavily on the backend and am thankfully getting to a point where I can look more at the frontend. We may need to release Roller 5.1 just to get retire the 5.0.x series -- front-end looks very similar, but back-end is much cleaner and faster to build, lower mainten

Re: ApacheCon CFP closes June 25

2014-06-18 Thread Gaurav Saini
Hello Glen, Thanks for this informative reply. I was looking for some suggestions and you provided. :) I am interested in any UI work related to roller. I can handle all the UI work inside roller although there might not be as much but if you have any issues in JIRA known to you I would love

Re: ApacheCon CFP closes June 25

2014-06-15 Thread Glen Mazza
Hi Gaurav, yes, I hope gaurav the theme (and Gaurav the person) gets a lot *more* attention too... :) You are most welcome to submit a proposal for any Apache project, and you don't need anybody's permission to do so. I've never given a presentation at ApacheCon so I wouldn't know much more

Re: ApacheCon CFP closes June 25

2014-06-13 Thread Gaurav Saini
Hello Dave and Glen, I am really excited and interested in submitting a paper on Apache Roller. I have worked on roller and have contributed to roller some months back. I also have contributed the responsive theme for roller which is really gaining some attention. Glen, might be knowing me an

ApacheCon CFP closes June 25

2014-06-13 Thread Dave
Dear Roller fans, As you may be aware, ApacheCon will be held this year in Budapest, on November 17-23. (See http://apachecon.eu for more info.) The Call For Papers for that conference is still open, but will be closing soon. Now is your chance to tell the world about how you use Roller. This co