+1 for 'panels' . Raluca.
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/14/2011 06:52 PM, Vincent Massol wrote: > > > > On Jan 14, 2011, at 4:05 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: > > > >> On 01/14/2011 03:34 PM, Anca Luca wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> On 01/14/2011 03:22 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: > >>>> On 01/14/2011 10:54 AM, Vincent Massol wrote: > >>>>> Hi devs, > >>>>> > >>>>> I'd like to suggest we use {{dashboard style="colortheme"/}} by > default on the main dashboard for the following reasons: > >>>>> > >>>>> 1) the default style has a heading size issue and it's hard for the > dashboard to guess the correct size in all situations > >>>>> 2) it clearly shows it's a dashboard > >>>> > >>>> What is style="colortheme" supposed to do? I tried it locally on an > >>>> older 3.0 SNAPSHOT and I didn't see any difference. > >>> > >>> It's styling the dashboard, as actual gadgets, similar to panels: with > a > >>> nice colored titlebar with caps titles, and a border around. It's > "new", > >>> it was committed on Monday (and hudson was crawling on the floor all > >>> this time so you might not have it). > >> > >> Why is it called colortheme? > > > > Because it takes the style from the current color theme. > > I'm reviving this thread after a very long time, but I believe it is > better and easier to make the change I propose now than later. > > The name 'colortheme' for the dashboard style is inappropriate. All > dashboard styles should use the colortheme, so there's nothing special > about this one. Just because the boxes look like the panels is not a > good enough reason to call the style "colortheme", because other styles > can use the colortheme in a consistent way and would deserve the name > "colortheme" just as much as this one. the plain dashboard style uses it > already, so obviously the name is totally irrelevant. And not only > gadgets, but all the other components use the colortheme. > > A first suggestion is to name this style "panels", because that's what > it does: it makes the dashboard boxes look like panels. Yes, I know > panels are supposed to disappear soon, but the term "panel" is not bound > to the xwiki-application-panels module, a "panel" is "sheet that forms a > distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of > something". And even if the panels application will be deprecated soon, > the term is still valid. That's what those are, panels, panes. > > And another reason why "panel" is a better term: the style uses the > colors for the panels: panelHeaderBackgroundColor, panelHeaderTextColor, > panelBackgroundColor. Again, even if the current panels technology will > get deprecated, the color theme names will be the same, and visually we > will have the same thing, a content column with "panels" on the side, no > matter how those panels are implemented. > > -- > Sergiu Dumitriu > http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
