Looking at this more...
The current default and bluelight themes are scalable - you can change the font
size from your browser. The smoothfeather theme is fixed pitch - you can't
change the font size.
Also, smoothfeather doesn't fit on my screen. That theme won't be usable where
I work because many of our users have their screen resolutions set to 800x600.
When designing themes, keep in mind that back office workers might have poor
eyesight, or may be blind. The developer community put a lot of work into
making the current theme accessible. If the default theme is changed, maybe we
can market the current theme as the accessible one.
-Adrian
--- On Sun, 4/12/09, Adrian Crum <adrian.c...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Adrian Crum <adrian.c...@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: New Default Theme?
> To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org
> Date: Sunday, April 12, 2009, 9:13 AM
> I like the idea of having the default theme match the public
> website.
>
> Not only is the current default theme lightweight, its
> reading direction is reversible. Will the new themes work in
> RTL layout?
>
> -Adrian
>
>
> --- On Fri, 4/10/09, David E Jones
> <david.jo...@hotwaxmedia.com> wrote:
>
> > From: David E Jones
> <david.jo...@hotwaxmedia.com>
> > Subject: New Default Theme?
> > To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org
> > Date: Friday, April 10, 2009, 3:21 PM
> > 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
