From: "Adrian Crum" <adrian.c...@yahoo.com>
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.
Also we may associate recommendations (resolutions, browsers, etc.) with each
theme and show these recommendations in the themes
gallery
Jacques
-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
