Hi Andreas, Yes, we completely agree that we need to be able to reuse existing bootstrap themes.
AFAIK what Guillaume was proposing was either to integrate a bootstrap theme maker UI (which one, I couldn’t find a good matching one when googling quickly?) or our own one (our ColorTheme application). But this would be only a way to generate a theme from XWiki’s UI. Of course we need to ensure that using existing bootstrap themes will work fine too and offer a way to upload/use them. Thanks -Vincent On 1 May 2014 at 11:34:23, Andreas Hahn ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote: > Hi, > > I think it won't hurt to add an outsiders pov to the discussion > although I'd guess it may sound a little bit provoking ;-). > > Consider dropping support of all Xwiki specifc theme / color editors > in favor of an as-tight-as-possible developer-level integration of > twitter bootstrap. > > Bang ! > > The reasoning for this is that no matter how much efforts and brains you > will put into doing skins and colors a la xwiki you will never even come > close to an amount of options that is offered by 3rd party commercial and > free template vendors (that build on bootstrap). > > There are offers like themeforest > http://themeforest.net/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&term=bootstrap > where you can find hundreds of theme templates based on bootstrap. > For a designer / developer who tries to build individual customized > front ends with very little effort this is a buffet of possibilities and > inspiration. > > Given a better (=deeper) integration with xwiki might break ground > for new use cases outside the 'traditional' wiki world. And xwiki users > would benefit > from an almost-as-easy individual site customization as other well > recognized platforms offer > (Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, ...) > > IMHO Bootstrap is pretty much a safe choice in terms of long term > support for the front > end as java is as the programming language for the backend. > > And from my personal experience using themeforest / bootstrap as a > development > resource in a recent project: It's been fun, it's been effective, result > is good looking. > > Enjoy > > Andreas > > > > Am 16.04.2014 14:08, schrieb Ecaterina Moraru (Valica): > > Hi, > > > > With the new Flamingo skin and with the design investigations done on > > existing Applications, there are more and more questions related to: > > * how will the applications be displayed on the new skin, while conserving > > the same look on the old skin; > > * how much an application should preserve previous functionality and how > > many efforts are we putting in adapting the functionality for new layouts; > > * when do we create a new application vs. when do we retire one; > > * etc. > > > > This question applies in general to applications and you can also read some > > discussions about applications like Panels [1] or ColorThemes [2]. > > > > In this thread I want to discuss some variants related to application's > > presentation: > > http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/ApplicationPresentation#HVariants > > > > I am interested in our position regarding this topic and if we have like a > > 'standard' solution or if the answer depends on the application in cause. > > > > Thanks, > > Caty > > > > [1] http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/PanelsImprovements > > [2] http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/ColorThemeforFlamingo > > _______________________________________________ > > devs mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
