+1 for setting smoothfeather as default backoffice theme. There is still something to be fixed while showing pages that use a different GlobalDescriptor like lookups.
-Bruno 2009/4/11 Ashish Vijaywargiya <ashish.vijaywarg...@hotwaxmedia.com> > Hello David, > > The overall work done on theme is excellent. > So I will give +1 for it. > > Here are few comments / thoughts on "Smooth Feature" : > > 1) I noticed that in the "Search form" or "Create form" we have kept > Horizontal Bar (<hr>) after each field. > In my opinion this reduces the readability of form. > > 2) The ViewProfile page is one of the page that contains heavy data. > For example : > https://localhost:8443/partymgr/control/viewprofile?partyId=DemoCustomer > > -- In the above link the other links like "Billing Account", "Financial > Accounts", "Communications" are placed vertically and that should be placed > horizontal separated by piping symbol (or some better option) so that we > could save the page area vertically. > -- Its difficult to understand starting of new section heading and its > associated block like we have sections by heading "Personal Information", > "Contact Information", "List Related Accounts". > For example its difficult the read the details present in "Payment Method > Information" that is next block of "Loyality Points". > > 3) There are so many tabbutton present for Party and the first one (i.e > Profile) is overlapping with the main navigation section present in the > left. (For ex: Edit any party record) > > 4) On the search result form sometime it shows the link for ID fields on > mouse hover but sometime don't show. > (This behavior is observed on firefox 3) > > 5) Next, Previous, First and Last etc are aligned vertically. > https://localhost:8443/partymgr/control/FindSecurityGroup > > Special thanks to Ryan Foster for this wonderful work. > > -- > Ashish > > > > > > David E Jones wrote: > >> >> Now that we have some nice themes in place I'm wondering if we shouldn't >> change the default theme, especially for the back-end. The old >> blue-grey-flat theme (which we should probably move to a theme component) is >> functional and I suppose lightweight too, but perhaps doesn't give the best >> first impression. >> >> Right now we have 2 alternative themes for the back-end (the bluelight >> theme and the smoothfeather theme which is meant to look like the new web >> site), and 1 alternative theme for ecommerce (the multiflex theme). >> >> One issue with all of these is they haven't been tested as thoroughly as >> the old stuff, but I'm not too worried about that because there are issues >> with the new default lots of people will see it soon and we should be able >> to get things fixed pretty fast. In my own testing both of the back-end ones >> seem pretty solid (I haven't played with the ecommerce one yet). >> >> Anyway, please respond with your thoughts on this. I considered opening a >> vote, but a general discussion is probably better first (and a vote may not >> be needed depending on how this discussion goes). >> >> BTW, yes, this is for marketing purposes and should happen before the >> release branch next Tuesday. >> >> -David >> >>
