The Ext look reminds me a lot about Office 2003*, with a little "Windows
XP Media Edition" shading added. I think it was a neat trick to make
people realize AJAX applications can replace traditional desktop
applications ("They look the same, therefore they must be equal").
But I don't think Ext has a look that is worth pursuing, we'll look like
2003 in 2010. Better to go with whatever wicket can give us easily, and
tone down Ext. I don't know how easy that is either, but JQuery has some
pretty fancy stuff** coming up, Ext must offer some features in this
department too.
-Arne
*: http://www.winsupersite.com/images/reviews/office2003_beta2_02.gif
**: http://jqueryui.com/themeroller/ , try changing things in the menu
on the left hand side
Andrea Aime wrote:
> Hi all,
> today we had a breakout meeting on #geoserver to discuss how to
> move forward with the new UI, in terms of styles and functionality.
> The participants to the meeting were all looking at a running GeoServer
> with the new UI (which was running on my PC, so sorry, not available
> for the world to see now).
>
> The two core topics were:
> - mixing wicket and extjs ui elements, how to deal with the obviuos
> look and feel inconsistency? (think the styler integration, but
> also the incoming geoext based layer preview)
>
> The takeout from this is that we have two options
> * we can redo the GeoServer css to look
> like extjs components, but that might be difficult, and we had a
> GSIP about branding and some time after that a designer redid the
> GeoServer UI to use colors and fonts mandated by that GSIP,
> so, do we still have to follow that GSIP?
> And, how do other poeple feel about an GeoServer UI that looks
> like a set of exjts widgets? (sample here:
> http://extjswordpress.net/)
> * we restyle the extjs UI to look like the new GeoServer UI instead,
> that is, white background, blue titles, and so on.
> We don't know how hard that would be, and would this be welcomed?
>
> Of course a third option is possible, that is, to have the two
> look different, but there was a decent consensus that it might
> not have been the best way to go (feel free to say otherwise,
> we're discussing this).
>
> - second topic is a review of how the catalog tree UI is going to
> be replaced with a pageable, sortable, filterable table based
> pages, one for workspaces, one for stores and one for layers.
> The topic goes on discussing how to increase connectinos between
> the various pages, provide handy views for users, and how to
> handle mass deletes
>
> Feedback welcomed
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
<snip>
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Arne Kepp
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