On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 10:21 PM, Monika C. Mevenkamp <moni...@princeton.edu > wrote:
> After all this talk about the new and improved and entirely different web > UI on the strategic plan at the OR conference, I am wondering how to > proceed forward. We are stuck in the past: 1.8 JSPUI with a few > customizations. > Are you willing to wait until 7.0 to upgrade? That's the earliest reasonable date when a possible new UI might be expected. Your DSpace is beyond security support period already. https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Software+Support+Policy > It would be easy to port this to JSPUI in version 5, but the bootstrap > theme does not work particularly well for us - it seems rather space > consuming. > > Has somebody a modified css / small JSPUI customizations that lead to a > tighter UI layout ? > IMHO it would quite difficult to keep your modifications to JSPUI separate from upstream JSPUI if they are anything more than CSS changes (e.g. bootstrap theme). You'd have to maintain a bunch of patches to JSPs which might break on each upgrade. Are your modifications something that makes sense to contribute back upstream? Regarding JSPUI and best practices to work with the Bootstrap-based interface in DSpace 4+, your best bet would be to talk to CINECA. > Comparing what I see in the XMLUI 5 with JSPUI 1.8, I see nice features > like > > - admin can impersonate another user > - a control panel with system info - the ability to start curation > tasks … > - and a much more friendly interface for dealing with editing an items > metadata authorization, … > > > Aside from the different look and feel what are the functional/feature > differences between the XMLUI and JSPUI ? > There are quite a few different features, your best bet to make a high-level comparison would be to review the list of new features in each major DSpace version, e.g.: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC5x/Release+Notes#ReleaseNotes-5.0ReleaseNotes > One of the changes we made requires a custom agreement page and > programming a bit of logic when to pop that page up and when to simply show > a bitstream. Who I did I talk to who said they have a custom agreement type > page at the OR conference ? Please holler - was that XMLUI ? > That might have been Jozef M. from LINDAT/CLARIN, they have a custom license module with such features and use XMLUI. It was briefly mentioned here: http://www.doria.fi/handle/10024/97724 Their repo is here: https://github.com/ufal/lindat-dspace Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
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