Rishi Verma created OODT-597:
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Summary: Improve theme/styling of OPSUI
Key: OODT-597
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-597
Project: OODT
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: opsui
Affects Versions: 0.5
Reporter: Rishi Verma
Assignee: Rishi Verma
Fix For: 0.6
The OPSUI is an excellent tool for getting a quick overview of an OODT FM, WM,
RM, and PCS installation. In fact, this tool is being used in many JPL projects
to view realtime processing jobs.
There are a couple of things that can be improved however:
1. The current theme, although VERY cool looking, can be very hard to see/read
on low-contrast screens or low-light environments. In an ops environment, I
think if the default theme/style was black text on white background, it would
keep things simple and readable. Users can then customize the theme as they
seek fit, but the default should always be the most readable. Of course, I want
to ensure the OPSUI doesn't look too dull. Thus, I propose we follow the
theming style of the OODT website itself, which uses a white/navy_blue/black
theme that is quite readable yet presentable.
2. The current OPSUI logos [1] and [2] are pretty slick. However, again, they
can be hard to read in low-light environments or if the screen being displayed
upon does not have good contrast. What's more, the current logos look very
different than standardized OODT logos we have displayed on our website/wiki
etc. I propose we develop a more standardized OPSUI logo that reuses our OODT
logo found on our website, and has a high contrast factor.
3. The workflow monitor page's workflow event table is currently
disproportional to the rest of the webpage, and again, has a low-contrast
factor. There's a couple of style updates that would be really useful: smaller
font, header row differentiation in terms of color, and better spacing.
4. Currently there is no padding between the edge of the browser window and the
opsui components. We should add some padding to make it look better and more
readable.
5. I propose we model the OPSUI look/feel against the OODT website. Thus, we
should fix the current OPSUI's font size, font color, link color, text size
etc. to look like the website.
The above points will help increase the readability/usability of the OPSUI
webapp. We can then build on more features to make it even more awesome.
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[1]
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/oodt/trunk/pcs/opsui/src/main/java/org/apache/oodt/pcs/opsui/project_logo.png
[2]
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/oodt/trunk/pcs/opsui/src/main/java/org/apache/oodt/pcs/opsui/splash.png
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