On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Jesse McConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> the other thing to consider about GWT is that the basics are just 'good > enough' to get very far in the design and layout of the page...to really > get > a sweet looking webapp you _really_ need to start looking into other > component libraries like GWT-Ext or MyGWT both of which I think are > license > friendly. I wanted to look at them, but they are under LGPL :( > It is also easy to get into just as convoluted mess as we have with the > webwork setup. Also on the table in this layer of design is the messaging > bus of the webapp client side where I would recommend the setup I have > been > working with on the jetty side of things where we would use cometd for a > long-polling connection, then the server side can initiate push events > back > to the client when something happens that the client should be notified > about. The communication back and forth is in JSON which is a simple > format > for data going back and forth across the wire. Its a pretty nice setup > and > scales nicely. I don't know cometd. About JSON, I think it would be good to use it because it is a "standard" that can be used by lot of tools: GWT, Adobe AIR, YUI... > > > Lots of things to consider once we decide to reinvent the ui. sure > jesse > > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Emmanuel Venisse < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I don't think we'll can work a lot about GWT in 1.2 with all issues > > targeted > > to this version, but we can include some GWT components. I think to the > > file > > browser in the working copy page and a user friendly page to write a > > schedule with for example a text part where it will be write in human > text > > the definition of the cron expression like "This schedule will run every > > hour". > > > > About my GWT test, I created something few months ago. It is some things > > about how to show all informations about groups/projects/builds at one > > place > > without to click on few pages to see informations. If user want more > > information, it click on the link in the menu (blank page for now :) ). > > You > > can see my work there: > > http://people.apache.org/~evenisse/continuum_gwt/Continuum.html<http://people.apache.org/%7Eevenisse/continuum_gwt/Continuum.html> > <http://people.apache.org/%7Eevenisse/continuum_gwt/Continuum.html> > > > > I don't think it should be the result we want, but it can be something > to > > start discussion. > > > > Emmanuel > > > > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 3:27 AM, Rahul Thakur < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > I know it sounds crazy, but I'd still like to work through the UI and > > > rework it using GWT for 1.2/1.3 ;-) > > > > > > Emmanuel - do you want to talk about the work you did with the GWT UI? > I > > > did some work as well but its in my local SVN. > > > > > > Does any one has any other thoughts on this? Changes/improvements in > UI > > > design from a usability perspective? > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Rahul > > > > > > > > > > > > Brett Porter wrote: > > > > > > > Sure, if someone is working on it :) > > > > > > > > On 02/04/2008, at 8:40 PM, Rahul Thakur wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Should we target this for 1.2/1.3 instead? > > > > > > > > > > Rahul > > > > > > > > > > Brett Porter (JIRA) wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > [ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CONTINUUM-1669?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel > > > > > > ] > > > > > > > > > > > > Brett Porter updated CONTINUUM-1669: > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > > > > > > > > > Fix Version/s: 2.0 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > User Interface improvements > > > > > > > --------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Key: CONTINUUM-1669 > > > > > > > URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CONTINUUM-1669 > > > > > > > Project: Continuum > > > > > > > Issue Type: Improvement > > > > > > > Reporter: Rahul Thakur > > > > > > > Fix For: 2.0 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Refer to detailed discussion here: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CONTINUUMDEV/UI+improvements > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Brett Porter > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > http://blogs.exist.com/bporter/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > jesse mcconnell > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
