Re: Making GWT look good...

2010-08-17 Thread ChrLipp
I would also like to point you to http://jqueryui.com/themeroller/ Choose Gallery on the left. For mobile Clients there is an equivalent site on http://jquerymobile.com/ Regards, CL On 16 Aug., 13:08, ChrLipp christian.l...@corba.at wrote: I appreciate the direction theGWTteam is heading. I

Re: Making GWT look good...

2010-08-16 Thread ChrLipp
I appreciate the direction the GWT team is heading. I also would like to see increased support for mobile clients on GWT too with native controls (HTML5) for the major plattforms (android, iPhone, ..) Samples could be found under - http://jquerymobile.com/designs/ -

Re: Making GWT look good...

2010-08-16 Thread Arthur Kalmenson
about #2 there is absolutely no documentation on css and uibinder from a designer point of view. For example any half decent designer nowadays would use div and span to create nice layout, while all gwt panels are still using nested tables. You can definitely just do most of your layout with

Re: Making GWT look good...

2010-08-12 Thread Uberto Barbini
We're developing a web 2.0 style app with gwt. I cannot post url here (not yet) but the goal is something like basecamp or twitter, nothing to do with desktop style widget (also cool ones like vaadin). Our experience so far: 1. UiBinder is much better than try to create our own widget by code. 2.

Re: Making GWT look good...

2010-08-12 Thread Thiago Miranda de Oliveira
We're developing a web 2.0 style app with gwt too, using the UiBinder to construct our panels and the GQuery API to interact with them ( that can be learned more about in here http://code.google.com/p/gwtquery/ ). Is there any chance that the GQuery will be included on the GWT core? On Aug 12,

Re: Making GWT look good...

2010-08-12 Thread Manuel Carrasco Moñino
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Thiago Miranda de Oliveira thiago...@gmail.com wrote: We're developing a web 2.0 style app with gwt too, using the UiBinder to construct our panels and the GQuery API to interact with them ( that can be learned more about in here

Re: Making GWT look good...

2010-08-12 Thread Savio Grossi
+1 for gwtquery on gwt core. ;-) On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Manuel Carrasco Moñino man...@apache.orgwrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Thiago Miranda de Oliveira thiago...@gmail.com wrote: We're developing a web 2.0 style app with gwt too, using the UiBinder to construct our

Re: Making GWT look good...

2010-08-12 Thread Olindo Pindaro
I found Vaandin simply Great: 1) Easy to use 2) Cristal clear architecture 3) Exellent Documentation 2010/8/11 Kevin Qiu kevin.jing@gmail.com +1 for Vaadin. Their widgets are very polished and professional. GXT and SmartGWT are fine but they're too desktop-looky, not Web2.0 looky...

Re: Making GWT look good...

2010-08-11 Thread Kevin Qiu
+1 for Vaadin. Their widgets are very polished and professional. GXT and SmartGWT are fine but they're too desktop-looky, not Web2.0 looky... On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 4:03 PM, marius.andreiana marius.andrei...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Chi, On Aug 9, 10:23 pm, Chi H c...@chi.ca wrote: *

Re: Making GWT look good...

2010-08-11 Thread Steve Wart
Vaadin looks good, and it makes sense to keep the client-side load light, especially with touch devices becoming prevalent. But it doesn't seem great (so far) for touch UI work, and I think the everything in Java mantra is sub-optimal. While Vaadin has hooks for CSS and hand-crafted JavaScript,

Re: Making GWT look good...

2010-08-11 Thread Jamie
One thing that I have been doing lately is to *not* use the tab panel. It's boring. Instead, I create my own tab bar, which I have full css control of, and then a separate stack of widgets. This lets me turn boring looking tabs into something really nice, much like the tabs you find here:

Re: Making GWT look good...

2010-08-11 Thread bradr
Style is so subjective I love GWT as-is, because it is plain, and CSS makes customization a breeze Has the GWT team thought about adding a theme section to there website, similar to Firefox's addon page? A place where developers could showcase custom themes. Other developers could

Re: Making GWT look good...

2010-08-11 Thread Marcelo Magno
Worth to mention their debug mode where you can find design problems. Try to click on the analyse layouts button: http://demo.vaadin.com/sampler/?debug=true so +1 for Vaadin Marcelo Magno On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Steve Wart steve.w...@gmail.com wrote: Vaadin looks good, and it

Re: Making GWT look good...

2010-08-09 Thread Olivier
Hi Chris, Here's a few that I really like : - ActiveCollab http://www.activecollab.com - WordPress Admin http://wordpress.org - Vaadin widget library http://demo.vaadin.com/sampler Cheers Olivier On 6 Aug 2010, at 14:44, Chris Ramsdale wrote: Hey GWT(ers), I've heard from many of you

Re: Making GWT look good...

2010-08-09 Thread Frederic Conrotte
I'm glad to see the GWT Team taking more care of styling. Styling is one of the reasons why we are currently using an external library like GXT from Sencha to build our entreprise apps. I think GXT did a pretty good job there. On Aug 9, 10:17 am, Olivier oliv...@digiworks.es wrote: Hi Chris,

Re: Making GWT look good...

2010-08-09 Thread martino
While I appreciate the richness of widgets and behaviours offered by framework like SmartGWT or GXT, I don't particularly like their windowish look and feel, also I don't think it's a particularly good idea promoting GWT powerfulness or web application in general by mimicking desktop application

Re: Making GWT look good...

2010-08-09 Thread Chris Ramsdale
Thanks for all of the great feedback (and please, keep it coming). With these suggestions and some internal guidance, we're going to move on to fleshing out mocks. Once I have something tangible, I'll share it here. -- Chris On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:01 PM, martino martino.piccin...@gmail.com

Re: Making GWT look good...

2010-08-09 Thread Chi H
On the topic of the widget set. * One thing we do internally is use deferred binding on some of our custom widgets to deal with different browsers having different levels of functionality. For example, in our custom styled button widget, we use CSS3 properties (e.g.: border-radius) to render

Re: Making GWT look good...

2010-08-09 Thread marius.andreiana
Hi Chi, On Aug 9, 10:23 pm, Chi H c...@chi.ca wrote:  * Pagination is the standard solution to the 'large number of entities' problem.  However, there is a usability cost to pagination. It would be really nice to get rid of the pagination and just use a scrollbar.   If you used the approach

Re: Making GWT look good...

2010-08-08 Thread dmen
Stock GWT widgets look pretty basic. However they are easy to theme because of their pure DOM structure and spartan CSS. They form a great base to create highly unique non-boring looks. GXT (and SmartGWT ?) has this rich and consistent enterprise look but is a pain in the arse to customize and

Re: Making GWT look good...

2010-08-08 Thread notcourage
It is crucial that the Look-and-Feel be documented as nimbus is (and OpenLook was). Sure one can theme/style widgets to match at a low level but CSS is insufficient to match scroll bars, navigation controls, sort/filter controls, etc. On Aug 6, 5:44 am, Chris Ramsdale cramsd...@google.com wrote:

Re: Making GWT look good...

2010-08-07 Thread Richard Allen
I appreciate that Google is working on improving the UI. I understand Chris asked for example business apps, like the expenses demo, but since others are mentioning good looking widget libraries, I thought I'd toss another in. Vaadin has very nice looking widgets and their code is Apache 2

Re: Making GWT look good...

2010-08-07 Thread Stefan Bachert
Hi, I feel Google/GWT should not just an other fancy theme/skin, it should support an abstract theming. To offer just a concrete theme means your own widgets needs work additional work to adapt to each concrete theme. To offer an abstract theming facilities means easily to share concrete themes.

Re: [gwt-contrib] Making GWT look good...

2010-08-07 Thread Johan Rydberg
On 8/6/10 2:44 PM, Chris Ramsdale wrote: Hey GWT(ers), I've heard from many of you that GWT apps simply don't look that good out of the box, and styling the default app would go a long way. We couldn't agree more. As some of you know, GWT 2.1 (with the help of Spring Roo 1.1) will generate a

Making GWT look good...

2010-08-06 Thread Chris Ramsdale
Hey GWT(ers), I've heard from many of you that GWT apps simply don't look that good out of the box, and styling the default app would go a long way. We couldn't agree more. As some of you know, GWT 2.1 (with the help of Spring Roo 1.1) will generate a full-fledged scaffolding app that users can

Re: Making GWT look good...

2010-08-06 Thread notcourage
I think following a documented STD like nimbus would foster good looks adoption. Thx for considering this! On Aug 6, 8:44 am, Chris Ramsdale cramsd...@google.com wrote: Hey GWT(ers), I've heard from many of you that GWT apps simply don't look that good out of the box, and styling the default

Re: Making GWT look good...

2010-08-06 Thread Roman Kuzmin
Try using system theme from GWT mosaic project. It make standar application look MUCH better -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google Web Toolkit group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this

Re: Making GWT look good...

2010-08-06 Thread nino ekambi
Take a look at the GXT(Ext GWT ) Style i think it looks pretty good 2010/8/6 Roman Kuzmin ro...@softaria.com Try using system theme from GWT mosaic project. It make standar application look MUCH better -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google Web

Re: Making GWT look good...

2010-08-06 Thread sakesun
I wish I could edit the row in-place (spreadsheet alike) On Aug 6, 7:44 pm, Chris Ramsdale cramsd...@google.com wrote: Hey GWT(ers), I've heard from many of you that GWT apps simply don't look that good out of the box, and styling the default app would go a long way. We couldn't agree more.

Re: Making GWT look good...

2010-08-06 Thread Sorinel C
You can use a widgets library on top of GWT, which can make your application look good. Here's what I listed the most/best used ones: http://ui-programming.blogspot.com/2010/01/comparation-ext-gwt-gxt-vs-gwt-ext-vs.html Cheers! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Making GWT look good...

2010-08-06 Thread Frank Argueta
ahh, good ol Sorinel C strikes again spamming us with links to his trojan infecting ad-loaded site. He's a spammer in disguise. 90% of this posts have links to his site. On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Sorinel C scristescu...@hotmail.com wrote: You can use a widgets library on top of GWT,

Re: Making GWT look good...

2010-08-06 Thread dolcra...@gmail.com
+1 for working towards a Nimbus implementation On Aug 6, 8:44 am, Chris Ramsdale cramsd...@google.com wrote: Hey GWT(ers), I've heard from many of you that GWT apps simply don't look that good out of the box, and styling the default app would go a long way. We couldn't agree more. As some of

Re: Making GWT look good...

2010-08-06 Thread gcstang
The widgets in this showcase look nice with the Enterprise Blue or Gray. http://www.smartclient.com/smartgwt/showcase/ On Aug 6, 2:57 pm, dolcra...@gmail.com dolcra...@gmail.com wrote: +1 for working towards a Nimbus implementation On Aug 6, 8:44 am, Chris Ramsdale cramsd...@google.com

[gwt-contrib] Making GWT look good...

2010-08-06 Thread Chris Ramsdale
Hey GWT(ers), I've heard from many of you that GWT apps simply don't look that good out of the box, and styling the default app would go a long way. We couldn't agree more. As some of you know, GWT 2.1 (with the help of Spring Roo 1.1) will generate a full-fledged scaffolding app that users can

[gwt-contrib] Re: Making GWT look good...

2010-08-06 Thread Mathias Bogaert
Google Adwords contains good looking business widgets (buttons, dropdowns, wizards, etc). How about open-sourcing some of those? On Aug 6, 2:44 pm, Chris Ramsdale cramsd...@google.com wrote: Hey GWT(ers), I've heard from many of you that GWT apps simply don't look that good out of the box,