[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Use "colortheme" for the home dashboard by default
Hi devs, I'd like to suggest we use {{dashboard style="colortheme"/}} by default on the main dashboard for the following reasons: 1) the default style has a heading size issue and it's hard for the dashboard to guess the correct size in all situations 2) it clearly shows it's a dashboard WDYT? Thanks -Vincent
On 01/14/2011 10:54 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi devs,
I'd like to suggest we use {{dashboard style="colortheme"/}} by default on the main dashboard for the following reasons:
1) the default style has a heading size issue and it's hard for the dashboard to guess the correct size in all situations 2) it clearly shows it's a dashboard
WDYT?
+1, if the style is too strong (titlebars colors can hurt a bit), then we should perfect it in following iterations, because we should have a colortheme integrated dashboard like style for the dashboard that works. Another question, would we want the colortheme style to be the default style for dashboard? Right now default style is "none" which means that the titles are displayed as the h2s that they are (as if you put a == == in the content). Thanks, Anca
Thanks -Vincent
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On Jan 14, 2011, at 10:54 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi devs,
I'd like to suggest we use {{dashboard style="colortheme"/}} by default on the main dashboard for the following reasons:
1) the default style has a heading size issue and it's hard for the dashboard to guess the correct size in all situations 2) it clearly shows it's a dashboard
Byt this I mean that if it's visible it's a dashboard then people are going to start asking questions and we can improve how it all works. Thanks -Vincent
WDYT?
Thanks -Vincent
On 01/14/2011 10:54 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi devs,
I'd like to suggest we use {{dashboard style="colortheme"/}} by default on the main dashboard for the following reasons:
1) the default style has a heading size issue and it's hard for the dashboard to guess the correct size in all situations 2) it clearly shows it's a dashboard
What is style="colortheme" supposed to do? I tried it locally on an older 3.0 SNAPSHOT and I didn't see any difference. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
On 01/14/2011 03:22 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
On 01/14/2011 10:54 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi devs,
I'd like to suggest we use {{dashboard style="colortheme"/}} by default on the main dashboard for the following reasons:
1) the default style has a heading size issue and it's hard for the dashboard to guess the correct size in all situations 2) it clearly shows it's a dashboard
What is style="colortheme" supposed to do? I tried it locally on an older 3.0 SNAPSHOT and I didn't see any difference.
It's styling the dashboard, as actual gadgets, similar to panels: with a nice colored titlebar with caps titles, and a border around. It's "new", it was committed on Monday (and hudson was crawling on the floor all this time so you might not have it). Thanks, Anca
On 01/14/2011 03:34 PM, Anca Luca wrote:
On 01/14/2011 03:22 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
On 01/14/2011 10:54 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi devs,
I'd like to suggest we use {{dashboard style="colortheme"/}} by default on the main dashboard for the following reasons:
1) the default style has a heading size issue and it's hard for the dashboard to guess the correct size in all situations 2) it clearly shows it's a dashboard
What is style="colortheme" supposed to do? I tried it locally on an older 3.0 SNAPSHOT and I didn't see any difference.
It's styling the dashboard, as actual gadgets, similar to panels: with a nice colored titlebar with caps titles, and a border around. It's "new", it was committed on Monday (and hudson was crawling on the floor all this time so you might not have it).
Why is it called colortheme? -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
On Jan 14, 2011, at 4:05 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
On 01/14/2011 03:34 PM, Anca Luca wrote:
On 01/14/2011 03:22 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
On 01/14/2011 10:54 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi devs,
I'd like to suggest we use {{dashboard style="colortheme"/}} by default on the main dashboard for the following reasons:
1) the default style has a heading size issue and it's hard for the dashboard to guess the correct size in all situations 2) it clearly shows it's a dashboard
What is style="colortheme" supposed to do? I tried it locally on an older 3.0 SNAPSHOT and I didn't see any difference.
It's styling the dashboard, as actual gadgets, similar to panels: with a nice colored titlebar with caps titles, and a border around. It's "new", it was committed on Monday (and hudson was crawling on the floor all this time so you might not have it).
Why is it called colortheme?
Because it takes the style from the current color theme. -Vincent
On 01/14/2011 06:52 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
On Jan 14, 2011, at 4:05 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
On 01/14/2011 03:34 PM, Anca Luca wrote:
On 01/14/2011 03:22 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
On 01/14/2011 10:54 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi devs,
I'd like to suggest we use {{dashboard style="colortheme"/}} by default on the main dashboard for the following reasons:
1) the default style has a heading size issue and it's hard for the dashboard to guess the correct size in all situations 2) it clearly shows it's a dashboard
What is style="colortheme" supposed to do? I tried it locally on an older 3.0 SNAPSHOT and I didn't see any difference.
It's styling the dashboard, as actual gadgets, similar to panels: with a nice colored titlebar with caps titles, and a border around. It's "new", it was committed on Monday (and hudson was crawling on the floor all this time so you might not have it).
Why is it called colortheme?
Because it takes the style from the current color theme.
I'm reviving this thread after a very long time, but I believe it is better and easier to make the change I propose now than later. The name 'colortheme' for the dashboard style is inappropriate. All dashboard styles should use the colortheme, so there's nothing special about this one. Just because the boxes look like the panels is not a good enough reason to call the style "colortheme", because other styles can use the colortheme in a consistent way and would deserve the name "colortheme" just as much as this one. the plain dashboard style uses it already, so obviously the name is totally irrelevant. And not only gadgets, but all the other components use the colortheme. A first suggestion is to name this style "panels", because that's what it does: it makes the dashboard boxes look like panels. Yes, I know panels are supposed to disappear soon, but the term "panel" is not bound to the xwiki-application-panels module, a "panel" is "sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something". And even if the panels application will be deprecated soon, the term is still valid. That's what those are, panels, panes. And another reason why "panel" is a better term: the style uses the colors for the panels: panelHeaderBackgroundColor, panelHeaderTextColor, panelBackgroundColor. Again, even if the current panels technology will get deprecated, the color theme names will be the same, and visually we will have the same thing, a content column with "panels" on the side, no matter how those panels are implemented. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
+1 to change "colortheme" style into "panels". Thanks, Marius On 03/22/2011 10:08 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
On 01/14/2011 06:52 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
On Jan 14, 2011, at 4:05 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
On 01/14/2011 03:34 PM, Anca Luca wrote:
On 01/14/2011 03:22 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
On 01/14/2011 10:54 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi devs,
I'd like to suggest we use {{dashboard style="colortheme"/}} by default on the main dashboard for the following reasons:
1) the default style has a heading size issue and it's hard for the dashboard to guess the correct size in all situations 2) it clearly shows it's a dashboard
What is style="colortheme" supposed to do? I tried it locally on an older 3.0 SNAPSHOT and I didn't see any difference.
It's styling the dashboard, as actual gadgets, similar to panels: with a nice colored titlebar with caps titles, and a border around. It's "new", it was committed on Monday (and hudson was crawling on the floor all this time so you might not have it).
Why is it called colortheme?
Because it takes the style from the current color theme.
I'm reviving this thread after a very long time, but I believe it is better and easier to make the change I propose now than later.
The name 'colortheme' for the dashboard style is inappropriate. All dashboard styles should use the colortheme, so there's nothing special about this one. Just because the boxes look like the panels is not a good enough reason to call the style "colortheme", because other styles can use the colortheme in a consistent way and would deserve the name "colortheme" just as much as this one. the plain dashboard style uses it already, so obviously the name is totally irrelevant. And not only gadgets, but all the other components use the colortheme.
A first suggestion is to name this style "panels", because that's what it does: it makes the dashboard boxes look like panels. Yes, I know panels are supposed to disappear soon, but the term "panel" is not bound to the xwiki-application-panels module, a "panel" is "sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something". And even if the panels application will be deprecated soon, the term is still valid. That's what those are, panels, panes.
And another reason why "panel" is a better term: the style uses the colors for the panels: panelHeaderBackgroundColor, panelHeaderTextColor, panelBackgroundColor. Again, even if the current panels technology will get deprecated, the color theme names will be the same, and visually we will have the same thing, a content column with "panels" on the side, no matter how those panels are implemented.
+1 for 'panels' . Raluca. On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote:
On 01/14/2011 06:52 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
On Jan 14, 2011, at 4:05 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
On 01/14/2011 03:34 PM, Anca Luca wrote:
On 01/14/2011 03:22 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
On 01/14/2011 10:54 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi devs,
I'd like to suggest we use {{dashboard style="colortheme"/}} by
default on the main dashboard for the following reasons:
1) the default style has a heading size issue and it's hard for the
dashboard to guess the correct size in all situations
2) it clearly shows it's a dashboard
What is style="colortheme" supposed to do? I tried it locally on an older 3.0 SNAPSHOT and I didn't see any difference.
It's styling the dashboard, as actual gadgets, similar to panels: with a nice colored titlebar with caps titles, and a border around. It's "new", it was committed on Monday (and hudson was crawling on the floor all this time so you might not have it).
Why is it called colortheme?
Because it takes the style from the current color theme.
I'm reviving this thread after a very long time, but I believe it is better and easier to make the change I propose now than later.
The name 'colortheme' for the dashboard style is inappropriate. All dashboard styles should use the colortheme, so there's nothing special about this one. Just because the boxes look like the panels is not a good enough reason to call the style "colortheme", because other styles can use the colortheme in a consistent way and would deserve the name "colortheme" just as much as this one. the plain dashboard style uses it already, so obviously the name is totally irrelevant. And not only gadgets, but all the other components use the colortheme.
A first suggestion is to name this style "panels", because that's what it does: it makes the dashboard boxes look like panels. Yes, I know panels are supposed to disappear soon, but the term "panel" is not bound to the xwiki-application-panels module, a "panel" is "sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something". And even if the panels application will be deprecated soon, the term is still valid. That's what those are, panels, panes.
And another reason why "panel" is a better term: the style uses the colors for the panels: panelHeaderBackgroundColor, panelHeaderTextColor, panelBackgroundColor. Again, even if the current panels technology will get deprecated, the color theme names will be the same, and visually we will have the same thing, a content column with "panels" on the side, no matter how those panels are implemented.
-- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
+1 On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Raluca Stavro <[email protected]> wrote:
+1 for 'panels' .
Raluca.
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote:
On 01/14/2011 06:52 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
On Jan 14, 2011, at 4:05 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
On 01/14/2011 03:34 PM, Anca Luca wrote:
On 01/14/2011 03:22 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
On 01/14/2011 10:54 AM, Vincent Massol wrote: > Hi devs, > > I'd like to suggest we use {{dashboard style="colortheme"/}} by
default on the main dashboard for the following reasons:
> > 1) the default style has a heading size issue and it's hard for the dashboard to guess the correct size in all situations > 2) it clearly shows it's a dashboard
What is style="colortheme" supposed to do? I tried it locally on an older 3.0 SNAPSHOT and I didn't see any difference.
It's styling the dashboard, as actual gadgets, similar to panels: with a nice colored titlebar with caps titles, and a border around. It's "new", it was committed on Monday (and hudson was crawling on the floor all this time so you might not have it).
Why is it called colortheme?
Because it takes the style from the current color theme.
I'm reviving this thread after a very long time, but I believe it is better and easier to make the change I propose now than later.
The name 'colortheme' for the dashboard style is inappropriate. All dashboard styles should use the colortheme, so there's nothing special about this one. Just because the boxes look like the panels is not a good enough reason to call the style "colortheme", because other styles can use the colortheme in a consistent way and would deserve the name "colortheme" just as much as this one. the plain dashboard style uses it already, so obviously the name is totally irrelevant. And not only gadgets, but all the other components use the colortheme.
A first suggestion is to name this style "panels", because that's what it does: it makes the dashboard boxes look like panels. Yes, I know panels are supposed to disappear soon, but the term "panel" is not bound to the xwiki-application-panels module, a "panel" is "sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something". And even if the panels application will be deprecated soon, the term is still valid. That's what those are, panels, panes.
And another reason why "panel" is a better term: the style uses the colors for the panels: panelHeaderBackgroundColor, panelHeaderTextColor, panelBackgroundColor. Again, even if the current panels technology will get deprecated, the color theme names will be the same, and visually we will have the same thing, a content column with "panels" on the side, no matter how those panels are implemented.
-- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
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On Mar 22, 2011, at 9:08 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
On 01/14/2011 06:52 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
On Jan 14, 2011, at 4:05 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
On 01/14/2011 03:34 PM, Anca Luca wrote:
On 01/14/2011 03:22 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
On 01/14/2011 10:54 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi devs,
I'd like to suggest we use {{dashboard style="colortheme"/}} by default on the main dashboard for the following reasons:
1) the default style has a heading size issue and it's hard for the dashboard to guess the correct size in all situations 2) it clearly shows it's a dashboard
What is style="colortheme" supposed to do? I tried it locally on an older 3.0 SNAPSHOT and I didn't see any difference.
It's styling the dashboard, as actual gadgets, similar to panels: with a nice colored titlebar with caps titles, and a border around. It's "new", it was committed on Monday (and hudson was crawling on the floor all this time so you might not have it).
Why is it called colortheme?
Because it takes the style from the current color theme.
I'm reviving this thread after a very long time, but I believe it is better and easier to make the change I propose now than later.
The name 'colortheme' for the dashboard style is inappropriate. All dashboard styles should use the colortheme, so there's nothing special about this one. Just because the boxes look like the panels is not a good enough reason to call the style "colortheme", because other styles can use the colortheme in a consistent way and would deserve the name "colortheme" just as much as this one. the plain dashboard style uses it already, so obviously the name is totally irrelevant. And not only gadgets, but all the other components use the colortheme.
A first suggestion is to name this style "panels", because that's what it does: it makes the dashboard boxes look like panels. Yes, I know panels are supposed to disappear soon, but the term "panel" is not bound to the xwiki-application-panels module, a "panel" is "sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something". And even if the panels application will be deprecated soon, the term is still valid. That's what those are, panels, panes.
And another reason why "panel" is a better term: the style uses the colors for the panels: panelHeaderBackgroundColor, panelHeaderTextColor, panelBackgroundColor. Again, even if the current panels technology will get deprecated, the color theme names will be the same, and visually we will have the same thing, a content column with "panels" on the side, no matter how those panels are implemented.
+1 for panels + to use the panels style. +1 to make it the default style too. Thanks -Vincent
On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 09:08 +0100, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
On 01/14/2011 06:52 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
On Jan 14, 2011, at 4:05 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
On 01/14/2011 03:34 PM, Anca Luca wrote:
On 01/14/2011 03:22 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
On 01/14/2011 10:54 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi devs,
I'd like to suggest we use {{dashboard style="colortheme"/}} by default on the main dashboard for the following reasons:
1) the default style has a heading size issue and it's hard for the dashboard to guess the correct size in all situations 2) it clearly shows it's a dashboard
What is style="colortheme" supposed to do? I tried it locally on an older 3.0 SNAPSHOT and I didn't see any difference.
It's styling the dashboard, as actual gadgets, similar to panels: with a nice colored titlebar with caps titles, and a border around. It's "new", it was committed on Monday (and hudson was crawling on the floor all this time so you might not have it).
Why is it called colortheme?
Because it takes the style from the current color theme.
I'm reviving this thread after a very long time, but I believe it is better and easier to make the change I propose now than later.
The name 'colortheme' for the dashboard style is inappropriate. All dashboard styles should use the colortheme, so there's nothing special about this one. Just because the boxes look like the panels is not a good enough reason to call the style "colortheme", because other styles can use the colortheme in a consistent way and would deserve the name "colortheme" just as much as this one. the plain dashboard style uses it already, so obviously the name is totally irrelevant. And not only gadgets, but all the other components use the colortheme.
A first suggestion is to name this style "panels", because that's what it does: it makes the dashboard boxes look like panels. Yes, I know panels are supposed to disappear soon, but the term "panel" is not bound to the xwiki-application-panels module, a "panel" is "sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something". And even if the panels application will be deprecated soon, the term is still valid. That's what those are, panels, panes.
And another reason why "panel" is a better term: the style uses the colors for the panels: panelHeaderBackgroundColor, panelHeaderTextColor, panelBackgroundColor. Again, even if the current panels technology will get deprecated, the color theme names will be the same, and visually we will have the same thing, a content column with "panels" on the side, no matter how those panels are implemented.
done: http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-6152 , in RC1.
I'd like this to happen in 3.0M2 if nobody objects. And +1 to make the "colortheme" the default when not specified. Thanks -Vincent On Jan 14, 2011, at 10:54 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi devs,
I'd like to suggest we use {{dashboard style="colortheme"/}} by default on the main dashboard for the following reasons:
1) the default style has a heading size issue and it's hard for the dashboard to guess the correct size in all situations 2) it clearly shows it's a dashboard
WDYT?
Thanks -Vincent
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