Not to completely agree with Ruth and BJ [grin]...

However on a practical viewpoint, all of the existing documentation of
OFBiz, including two hardcopy books (one of them Ruths) and countless
other PDFs (Ruths, etc..) and other sources of documentation shows the
flatgrey theme for screenshot examples.  In addition, there are
(probably) various other organizational training manuals that exist
which would use flatgrey as screenshot examples (click here, etc.).
What about all the suppliers that have back-end access, do we also
have to instruct them about the new theme?  What about their training
manuals? This was a HUGE change IMHO.

So it's not the new theme, it's the deletion of the old one that's the
issue.  From from day one, I tried all the other themes and I still
prefer the flatgrey, because I think it was a well thought out
navigation system.   Dave did an excellent job tying all the functions
together into a nice, logical layout.  The multiple tabs really work
for me.

It's ok to change the default theme, but please let's not break the
backward compatibility of OFBiz's supporting infrastructure.


On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Ruth Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yeah you do...live in a vacuum. IMHO and experience the PMC does live in a
> vacuum. As the saying goes...you guys "don't have a clue".
> Just my 2 cents.
> Ruth
>
> On 1/20/11 9:56 PM, Adrian Crum wrote:
>>
>> That's not true. Every change is discussed and debated.
>>
>> The OFBiz developers and the PMC don't live in a vacuum - they have
>> production systems to maintain. It is silly to think they would not consider
>> those production systems when proposing changes.
>>
>> -Adrian
>>
>> --- On Thu, 1/20/11, BJ Freeman<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>
>>> you will find that the ofbiz
>>> developer group first priority is to change
>>> before considering the effect on production systemm using
>>> offbiz.
>>> something I lobby against, but has little effect.
>>> so I have a system to accomplish this regardless of what
>>> they do.
>>>
>>>
>>> =========================
>>> BJ Freeman
>>> Strategic Power Office with Supplier Automation
>>> <http://www.businessesnetwork.com/automation/viewforum.php?f=52>
>>> Specialtymarket.com<http://www.specialtymarket.com/>
>>> Systems Integrator-- Glad to Assist
>>>
>>> Chat  Y! messenger: bjfr33man
>>>
>>>
>>> Mike sent the following on 1/20/2011 3:38 PM:
>>>>
>>>> But why delete it?  Alot of folks learned ofbiz
>>>
>>> on flatgrey, and their
>>>>
>>>> employees are used to it.  At least keep it
>>>
>>> around as flatgrey_old.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Adrian Crum<[email protected]>
>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> That theme was starting to look old, so the
>>>
>>> developer community decided to
>>>>>
>>>>> update it.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you prefer the old version of the theme, you
>>>
>>> are welcome to replace the
>>>>>
>>>>> new one with it.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Adrian
>>>>>
>>>>> On 1/20/2011 3:21 PM, Mike wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I just loaded trunk and discovered that the
>>>
>>> normal flatgrey theme has
>>>>>>
>>>>>> been completely redefined.  What
>>>
>>> happened?  I thought it was actually
>>>>>>
>>>>>> the best theme that was very well
>>>
>>> organized.  Is there a way to get it
>>>>>>
>>>>>> back?
>>>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>

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