that sounds good to me, and I'm in for the OfficeHours next week! Domi
On 21.03.2012, at 01:42, Kohsuke Kawaguchi wrote: > On 03/20/2012 04:11 AM, FredG wrote: >> Hi, >> >> First of all +1 for the nice design and layout in your attached screenshot. >> I really like having the most important actions in the header bar. >> >> If it's OK for you, I'll add a link back to this thread from >> https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/UI+Enhancements >> which already lists a lot of ideas how the UI can be improved. >> >> Communication-wise, the best channel would be the #jenkins channel >> on the Freenode IRC network. > > That and this mailing list. > > And random comments after playing with the current prototype. The usual > caveat apply that I'm not a UX person: > > - The menu of the top banner doesn't seem very useful to me. Right now > it always shows the same 4 things from the action menu of the top > page, which is probably not what you intended. But even if it changes > per page, I think it'd end up just repeating what's on the left. > > - I liked our recent breadcrumb that sticks to the top of the page. > > - I'd love to merge this with domi's color palette change to kill > two birds in one stone. > > - I'd be interested in seeing some YUI buttons replaced by their > counterparts in Bootstrap to see how they'd look. > > - Ditto for warning messages. > > - Because it uses fluid layout, when my screen width is small (say less than > 1000px, so it's not *that* small), the main portion drops below the left bar. > I'm not too keen on that. > > > Bugs (I'm on Chrome/Linux): > > - configuration page layout is quite broken > > - search box didn't work. > >> >> Regards, >> >> Fred >> >> >> On Tuesday, March 20, 2012 9:25:23 AM UTC+1, Tom Bevers wrote: >>> >>> I already have forked jenkins and done some work in branch here: >>> https://github.com/tombevers/jenkins >>> My github Id: >>> https://github.com/tombevers<https://github.com/tombevers/jenkins> >>> >>> What's the best communication channel to communicate over the work and >>> backward >>> compatibility? >>> >>> On Tuesday, March 20, 2012 12:57:41 AM UTC+1, Kohsuke Kawaguchi wrote: >>>> >>>> On 03/18/2012 03:55 AM, Tom Bevers wrote: >>>> > Hi all, >>>> > >>>> > I really like Jenkins and use it daily, but one thing annoys me and >>>> that's >>>> > the GUI. It's not that user friendly and doesn't look good. >>>> > I hoped that would have been changed after the logo design contest as >>>> > www.jenkins-ci.org has gotten a new design aswel as the bug tracker. >>>> > >>>> > I want to contribute so we can make the GUI better and faster, and I >>>> have >>>> > some proposal: >>>> > >>>> > - Use Twitter Bootstrap< >>>> http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/index.html> and >>>> > change the colors a bit to match the Jenkins colors >>>> > - Clean up current HTML >>>> > - Remove all inline styling (Include CSS in the head) >>>> > - Remove all inline javascript (Include at the bottom) >>>> > - Create sprite images wich results in less http calls >>>> > >>>> > I already tried to use the twitter bootstrap wich results directly in a >>>> > better looking Jenkins GUI (see the attachment). >>>> >>>> Thanks. Would you be interested in creating a branch and doing the work >>>> there? It's great that you are interested in working on it, and I think >>>> there are things I can help in ensuring backward compatibility, etc. >>>> >>>> I'm also trying to decompose monolithic style.css and >>>> hudson-behaviour.js and co-locate them via tag files so that we can see >>>> related code more quickly, which I think is relevant to this effort as >>>> well. >>>> >>>> On top of that, there are other committors like Ohtake-san and Domi, who >>>> I suspect have some opinions about these things! >>>> >>>> Let me know your GitHub ID so that we can set things up. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Kohsuke Kawaguchi | CloudBees, Inc. | http://cloudbees.com/ >>>> Try Nectar, our professional version of Jenkins >>>> >>>> > > > -- > Kohsuke Kawaguchi | CloudBees, Inc. | http://cloudbees.com/ > Try Nectar, our professional version of Jenkins
