[xwiki-devs] [UX] Converge design of Mail Archive app with xwiki / flamingo / forum app
Hello, I was having a look at the proposal for Forum app design with Flamingo [1][2], and I thought it could be good to start thinking about the same for the Mail Archive app. Yes, I'm still working on this btw :) Would it be possible for me to re-use some graphical elements from this proposal ? (buttons icons, the grey icons around the boxes corners, this sort of thing). Would it be possible to somehow get close to this design even without Flamingo skin (so with colibri), as flamingo is still not a final skin ? Also I remember there were some discussions about it, but how should one proceed, keep the same app and maintain both colibri/flamingo look with distinct css (and how to switch between both ? detect the current skin of the wiki ?). Or just make a "flamingo" version that would not look too bad with colibri ? Would the ColorTheme variables still be available for a parsed ssx ? To be honest I like the proposal (and a forum app UI is the closest you could get to a mail archive app UI), except maybe for the topics / topics answers, if there's a large number of answers (occurs often with a mail thread), maybe it's not enough compact / paginated. In my most crazy dreams, the forum app and the mail archive app could share the same UI with small variants, but fed with different objects / data sources - seems very nice idea, but would be quite complex to achieve. I'm just trying to prepare myself only, because I will not work on this yet - I'm currently bugfixing and finishing some UIs. Maybe I should wait for the 6.x cycle (and flamingo) to be more mature. Thanks & regards, Jeremie [1] http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/ForumApplicationDesign [2] http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/kytpmsypd2cjemir
Hi Jeremie, The Mail Archive app is considered by me in order to get a redesign, the only problem is that it is the last in my list :) see http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/CollaborativeApplicationsso it might take a long time for me to reach to it, but since you said the UI could be similar to Forum it is a great news. Many of your questions I've also asked in this mail thread http://markmail.org/thread/xekbxdygi3wrcoui and in this page http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/ApplicationPresentation Would be great if you could read my thoughts and maybe give your opinion about them. I don't have a final solution for our problems and the community should pick a strategy, or at least discuss about it :) Thanks, Caty On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Jeremie BOUSQUET < [email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
I was having a look at the proposal for Forum app design with Flamingo [1][2], and I thought it could be good to start thinking about the same for the Mail Archive app. Yes, I'm still working on this btw :)
Would it be possible for me to re-use some graphical elements from this proposal ? (buttons icons, the grey icons around the boxes corners, this sort of thing). Would it be possible to somehow get close to this design even without Flamingo skin (so with colibri), as flamingo is still not a final skin ?
Also I remember there were some discussions about it, but how should one proceed, keep the same app and maintain both colibri/flamingo look with distinct css (and how to switch between both ? detect the current skin of the wiki ?). Or just make a "flamingo" version that would not look too bad with colibri ? Would the ColorTheme variables still be available for a parsed ssx ?
To be honest I like the proposal (and a forum app UI is the closest you could get to a mail archive app UI), except maybe for the topics / topics answers, if there's a large number of answers (occurs often with a mail thread), maybe it's not enough compact / paginated. In my most crazy dreams, the forum app and the mail archive app could share the same UI with small variants, but fed with different objects / data sources - seems very nice idea, but would be quite complex to achieve.
I'm just trying to prepare myself only, because I will not work on this yet - I'm currently bugfixing and finishing some UIs. Maybe I should wait for the 6.x cycle (and flamingo) to be more mature.
Thanks & regards, Jeremie
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Hi Caty, 2014-04-30 10:57 GMT+02:00 Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <[email protected]>:
Hi Jeremie,
The Mail Archive app is considered by me in order to get a redesign, the only problem is that it is the last in my list :) see http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/CollaborativeApplicationsso it might take a long time for me to reach to it, but since you said the UI could be similar to Forum it is a great news.
Well no problem, anyway it would be good for me to finalize the app before thinking about improving the UI design...
Many of your questions I've also asked in this mail thread http://markmail.org/thread/xekbxdygi3wrcoui and in this page http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/ApplicationPresentation
Would be great if you could read my thoughts and maybe give your opinion about them.
I did, but given the lengthy answer, you may regret that I did ! ;-)
I don't have a final solution for our problems and the community should pick a strategy, or at least discuss about it :)
Thanks, Caty
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Jeremie BOUSQUET < [email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
I was having a look at the proposal for Forum app design with Flamingo [1][2], and I thought it could be good to start thinking about the same for the Mail Archive app. Yes, I'm still working on this btw :)
Would it be possible for me to re-use some graphical elements from this proposal ? (buttons icons, the grey icons around the boxes corners, this sort of thing). Would it be possible to somehow get close to this design even without Flamingo skin (so with colibri), as flamingo is still not a final skin ?
Also I remember there were some discussions about it, but how should one proceed, keep the same app and maintain both colibri/flamingo look with distinct css (and how to switch between both ? detect the current skin of the wiki ?). Or just make a "flamingo" version that would not look too bad with colibri ? Would the ColorTheme variables still be available for a parsed ssx ?
To be honest I like the proposal (and a forum app UI is the closest you could get to a mail archive app UI), except maybe for the topics / topics answers, if there's a large number of answers (occurs often with a mail thread), maybe it's not enough compact / paginated. In my most crazy dreams, the forum app and the mail archive app could share the same UI with small variants, but fed with different objects / data sources - seems very nice idea, but would be quite complex to achieve.
I'm just trying to prepare myself only, because I will not work on this yet - I'm currently bugfixing and finishing some UIs. Maybe I should wait for the 6.x cycle (and flamingo) to be more mature.
Thanks & regards, Jeremie
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