Following up:
Ext has pretty robust theming options, so I think that it'll be
reasonable to shoot for an Ext theme which aligns with our Geoserver
look & feel. I haven't found anything as simple as jQuery's
themeroller though - so if anyone knows of an equivalent I'd love to
hear about it.
So, I think that our plan of action is probably to have someone (most
likely me, unless there are other volunteers) figure out how to create
an Ext theme which complements the GeoServer 2 interface.
I have some work for Orton coming down the pike, and will be at SXSW
this coming week, but can add this into my queue if folks think that's
the best path forward. (also: should I open a JIRA to track this work?)
Chris
On Mar 10, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Arne Kepp wrote:
> 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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