4 Jun
2014
4 Jun
'14
9:44 a.m.
Hi Denis,
On 4 Jun 2014 at 09:27:49, Denis Gervalle (dgl@softec.lu(mailto:dgl@softec.lu)) wrote:
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 8:49 AM, vincent(a)massol.net
wrote:
[snip]
Some thoughts:
1) Panels are indeed independent of the skin but the position of the Panels are not, they
depend on the skin, especially the default position. The proof of this is this discussion
and the fact that Flamingo requires a different default Panel layout than Colibri…
2) Changing the default set of panels and their position in 6.x to be good for Flamingo
means that you consider that we cannot have more than 1 skin at a time. I believe we
should go in the direction of being able to have more than 1 skin at a time.
3) It could also be nice if a user could install a skin from extensions.xwiki.org (like
the leothrix one) and upon installing it he would be able to choose to have the default
Panel layout for this skin or keep his customization.
Basically this is all about having a nice user experience.
Now I agree that this topic is a bit complex but I still believe we should brainstorm it
to decide where we want to go in the future even if for now it’s too complex and we decide
to support only 1 skin at a time for that reason (which is a valid reason).
Thanks
-Vincent
On 29 May 2014 at 11:23:01, Marius Dumitru Florea (
mariusdumitru.florea@xwiki.com(mailto:mariusdumitru.florea@xwiki.com))
wrote:
Note that Guillaume forgot to mention that the icons will be larger (see
http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Improvements/Skin4x/homepageDesk…).
Right now they are the ones from the panel in medium width mode because
Guillaume has implemented it yet.
@Guillaume: regarding icon colors, what would be your plan? Blue and white
colors as on
http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Improvements/Skin4x/homepageDesk…
even for the Colibri skin or different coloring depending on the skin?
I also think that it might be best to not change Colibri since people are
probably used to it for now. Now we need to find a way to have panels
defined differently for each skin for that.
I do not really agree. Panels is (at least intended to be) a standalone
application, that is not directly related to skins. Panels themselves are
also independent. Linking panel app, panels and skin would not increase the
modularity of our solution. I do not really understand why adding that
AppBar panel change anything. If the user want an AppBar, she could
configure it easily in the panel configuration. And regarding the default
distribution, I do not see why in the 6.x release, we couldn't change the
default panel layout. This will have no impact on existing users that are
migrating. I do not see any reason not to have the AppBar in colibri by
default in the new distribution. On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Guillaume
"Louis-Marie" Delhumeau
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In Flamingo, we have created the concept of Application Bar, that we
have
> implemented as a Panel:
> http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-10254
>
> I propose to put the Application Bar by default on the left column.
>
> Since we do not have a configuration system at the skin level, it
would be
> present for both Colibri & Flamingo. I
think it is not a problem
because I
have
managed to make it look good for both (except for the size of the
icons) :
http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/attachment/27707/appbar.png
WDYT?
It doesn't look very well, and the Applications panel is redundant. I
don't have a solution though. Need to think about it. 