Hi Dirk,
whow, tons of work.
I wish you lots of strength and patience 😊
Thank you! Yeah, so far I only had 2-3 complete burn-outs during the
5211R development and that helped to keep it mostly on track. :p
1-2 years ago we had the topic of a new layout for the GUI.
Either I didn't read carefully or there was nothing about it. But wouldn't this
be an opportunity to refresh the layout at the same time?
The thing is: It's never a really good time for it. :-/
You see, when I started to port the old CodeIgniter 3 pages to
CodeIgniter 4 I suffered through weeks of "nothing is working", "why
does the GUI look like crap and why is there tons of stuff missing?!?"
At that point all I had to worry about was code. If (for example)
/swupdate/news was missing the GUI menus or part of the ScrollList
display? I knew it wasn't the jQuery, the HTML or the CSS of the GUI
theme that was causing it, but that the issue was in one of the PHP GUI
libraries.
Doing the porting form one framework to another, one PHP version to
another *and* one theme to another at the same time? That's just a
disaster waiting to happen.
On top of that (as I just wrote in my reply to Ernie): I do have 14 GB
of raw GUI theme related data sitting on my Windows workstation and got
the whole smear of Adobe related software installed there. I trolled
ThemeForest and other resources for months and found lots of
"interesting candidates". Some free, some paid. By now I threw around
1200-1500 USD at paid templates and nothing really fits or has the level
of detail, attention and functionality that I could replace our current
Adminica template and it wouldn't feel like a step (or two or three)
backwards, but actually like one step forward.
I even tried repeatedly and with varying degree of success to piece
something together myself or to augment an "almost OK'ish" theme with
the missing bits and pieces by supplementing them from another theme.
But it just ever pans out. It bloats the CSS with redundant entries,
colors and shapes don't match up and eventually the result looks like a
Ferrari or Porsche that first has been "tuned" by a Saudi Prince with a
serious case of bad taste and then got some Redneck extras bolted on by
the 2nd hand owner.
Dirk, I know I owe you for this and I'm seriously depressed that so far
I couldn't deliver. But Pixel-Pushery isn't my forte and I fear this
needs the hands of an artist, which we don't have on call.
But perhaps we could try to find one to do a custom theme, provided we
could get it funded? Or maybe someone here has an in-house webdesigner
with some time at hand that could try to touch up one of the better
theme train-wrecks that I have aggregated so far?
As is the plan is to finish and release 5211R with the existing Adminica
theme, but ideally it ought to be done over in the somewhat longer haul
once an alternative becomes viable.
--
With best regards
Michael Stauber
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