Moin to all, this is a CALL FOR ACTION! - the problem: Moin actually has a really old fashioned design. Looking at it, you could think you're still living in the Ronald Reagan era. "Gone with the wind" seems much cooler than the official theme and the corresponding web site.
- the need: we absolutely need a good designer and UI architect who will be able to take us in the post-Obama era. The new 2.0 version should be a revolution, not only for the code but also for the eyes! - the risk: we've learned from the past that making a new theme is quite easy. But having a fully supported one, with high quality and committed developers for the near future is not so simple. So, a great addition to the Moin team would be some artistic/design person who feels passionate about moin, and about creating and maintaining a good theme. If you think you could help, please apply within! ********************************************************************** Apart from the propaganda and jokes, I wrote a 'desperate' mail on this subject to Thomas Waldmann. He replied and suggested to forward his ideas here. This is the relevant part of his original mail: [...] For moin2 (which is the "in development" version and the place where new stuff should happen), we also search for someone caring about this stuff. While it has increasingly high power inside, it still looks very raw and misses UI design at many places. I'ld like to have 1 or 2 themes there: something looking similar to 1.9 modernized (just for continuity) and some sidebar theme, maybe looking similar to mediawiki (not 1:1 but somehow similar). I don't want to have more builtin themes, see maintenance problem described above and also I think it is important to concentrate on a few quality themes than having a big quantity of "80% finished themes". That 80% thing was one of the problems I was seeing with many 1.9 themes btw. - themes that looked great at first glance, but lacked support for important functionality. Or for scalability, or for RTL, or ... Cheers, Thomas [...] Have a great moin2, Nico ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Moin-user mailing list Moin-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/moin-user
