A.K.A. Welcome to Fragmentation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragmentation_%28programming%29
-Eduard On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Since 6.3 roadmap we are working on improving a set of applications from > Contrib, read more on > http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/CollaborativeApplications > > The purpose of the improvement is to make sure they work on the new skin > and also that they have an unitary style. We have some design proposals for > Calendar, Forum, Meeting and Task. > > For example this is how the Task app should look like > > http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/TaskApplicationDesign/tasks-app-add.png > > Problems: > A. We are tempted to use (and already started using in some cases) CSS > classes from Bootstrap (Flamingo). Here we can enumerate: grid classes, > responsive classes, specific BS classes (buttons, labels, etc.). For some > of these classes we have some partial equivalent classes in Colibri (.half, > .third, .button, etc.) so even if it will not look perfect in Colibri, the > app will be displayed. > // Flamingo is available since XWiki 6.2 > > B. Also the image I've just shown is using some icons. We are tempted to > use Icon Themes variables, this way the app will be able to adapt to any > given IconTheme. > // IconThemes is available since XWiki 6.3 > > C. The apps we are reviewing are still using '$msg.get' we would like to > replace that with the new $services.localization > // Localization Macro is available since XWiki 4.3 > > D. Other deprecated calls, depends on the app. > > The problem is that some apps now have defined the parent version as 4.1, > 4.3, 6.2, etc. and might not be a true statement anymore, and the version > needs to be updated. > > Is it ok for the new redesign applications to use new api and be dependent > of newer versions of XWiki? This way we can make sure we are creating great > looking apps and using the latest functionality for the new versions of the > app. In our case that would be 6.3. > > The downside of this is that you won't be able to upgrade your apps to this > new versions we are improving, without migrating/updating your entire wiki. > > Should we depend on a smaller version? WDTY? > > Thanks, > Caty > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
