On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 09:53, Berin Loritsch wrote:

> 
> The only thing I would want to customize are:
> 
> 1) Project Logo
> 2) Project color-scheme

No problem :-) 
 
> That's it.  I really don't think that is too much to ask.  The
> layout should remain constant without a doubt.

We are in agreement then :-) Wow a new era for Avalon and Turbine
developers ;-) We did you avalon in part to produce PDFs :-)

> 
> > I'm not trying to stifle anyone's creative urges, I just feel 
> > that in the matter of project comprehension that it is 
> > pragmatic to have everything look the same. Some don't agree 
> > with me but what I'm really trying to avoid is the infinite 
> > configuration quagmire where everyone adds things to make 
> > things look the way they like and thus you loose all cross 
> > project cohesion.
> 
> Everything should definitely feel the same.  However, color is
> a definite clue that you have changed contexts.  By drilling
> down a Project's heirarchy, it helps to have a visual clue that
> you are not at the same level you used to be.
> 
> Color customization is not just a cosmetic tool, it does help
> to understand a project's hierarchy.  Logo changes can be missed,
> but a different background or header color is hard to ignore.

I'm definitely flexible on the color thing.

> As a side note, it would be cool if we could include the Jakarta
> and project logos as a header in the printed documentation, but
> that is a stylesheet change.
> 
> > 
> > > I just wish I new about Maven a lot earlier--it delivers on 
> > a lot of 
> > > promises, and in my book that's golden.
> > 
> > It's been in the works for a long time but really it's only 
> > been in the last 3-4 weeks that others have worked on it and 
> > it's taken off primarily because of the interest people have 
> > in making their develop lives easier. There is definitely an 
> > interest there because people would rather focus on their 
> > apps then fart around trying to get a build system to work 
> > and have it produce useful information.
> 
> Absolutely.
> 
> 
> So what did you think about the two line navigation approach for
> Jakarta Site?

I like the idea and I've thought about how to aggregate the content of
many projects into an uber site but I haven't done much work on it as
I've focused on the project level. But I'm definitely thinking of the
aggregation of projects: for documentation and building.

> > > I see the line with the sub-projects able to be two lines tall. The 
> > > first line would be the parent level, and the second line 
> > would be the 
> > > current line.  That way we can have something like this at the root 
> > > level:
> > > 
> > >           Alexandria Avalon BCEL ...
> > > 
> > > And at the sub-project level, we would be able to have 
> > something like 
> > > this:
> > > 
> > > Jakarta|  Theory Framework LogKit *Excalibur* Cornerstone 
> > Phoenix Apps
> > >           CLI Collections Concurrent ....
> > > 
> > > That way we can easily navigate the site, and drill down quickly to 
> > > the actual information we need.
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