Jacques, We use RTL. May be you are right about the the ease of use to find an item, but the user who has permission to all these functionality is an admin, and normally, she is comfortable finding any item quickly. The rest of the uses don't have that much items and menus shown.
I know, other themes may look better, or fancier, but most users use flat gray to base their work on and extend/customize it, because it's easier and cleaner. I am not sure if bigger organization prefer fancier look and feel over cleaner. And to be honest, I think flat gray looks more professional than others. Therefore, it give a positive first impression, when demonstrated. Additional themes may still exist beside FlatGray, but I recommend to make it the default one. On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Jacques Le Roux <[email protected]> wrote: > I see that most people prefer Flat Grey. > > Let me explain why I prefer Tomahawk. > > Did you ever wonder why the paper we write on has more than often a greater > height than width, why newspaper have many columns, etc. > Here is an answer > http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/3553/why-do-newspapers-use-multiple-columns > > OK, my argument: don't you feel a pain to find an application, a menu entry > in Flat Grey? No? Then you are used to find it at some place and don't care > anymore. Now just imagine the same for a new user... > > This is where Tomahawk is better. It's far easier to find an entry in 2 > colums (applications in Tomahawk) than in 7 columns (applications in Flat > Grey). Or an entry in an application (1 column for Tomahawk, up to 14 in > Flat Grey). Just try it > > Another point: Product screens are awful in Flat Grey (to many buttons for > menus, hard to spot). Though actually I believe Tomahawk would benefit from > a third column, for instance for Product. This could be 2 twin columns if > more than, say, 15 entries would show in a column. Like we have for > Applications, though not sure how it's organized. I mean why some are in > right column and other in left one? Also something wich could help spot > entries quicker would be to allow sorting entries in menus by language. It's > now only done based on English. > > OK, now there is the RTL feature. Who use it? Few I guess > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-left > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-to-right#Directionality). Which does not > diminish RTL importance, but ponders it in choice for a default theme. > > My 2 cts > > Jacques > > > From: "Ashish Vijaywargiya" <[email protected]> > >> My vote will be to keep two themes in the project. IMO Flatgrey theme is >> the best to keep as the default one for the project. >> >> -- >> Ashish >> >> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Jacopo Cappellato < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> > I) $OFBIZ_HOME/themes/*: move a few of them to "Attic" and a few of >>> > them >>> to "Extras"; keep just one (or two) >>> > >>> >>> Jacques proposed to keep Tomahawk (default) and Flat Grey. >>> Olivier proposed to keep just one (Tomahawk, I guess). >>> No other comments so far. >>> What should be do with the remaining themes? Attic or Extras? Are there >>> volunteers for Extras? I would suggest that, if we move them to Extras we >>> create *one* project only (for all the themes) rather than one project >>> for >>> theme... but I would love to get your feedback on this. >>> >>> Jacopo >> >> >
