Jacques, all Maybe we should retain the gallery as a place open for all contributors to post their screenshots of themes, and a url to where the theme is maintained?
That we we keep the visibility of the diversity and at the same time keep maintenance of the page to a minimum. Regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 6:36 AM, Mike <[email protected]> wrote: > Oldschool still seems to work fine (in 12.04). I just had to fix the > footer. Haven't noticed any quirks. > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Adrian Crum < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > The "Old School" theme was designed by me (https://issues.apache.org/ > > jira/browse/OFBIZ-918). Layout was easily broken in that theme - that was > > one of the motivators for removing it. At the time no one objected, and > no > > one stepped forward to maintain it. > > > > Even now - no one is maintaining the Old School theme found in the Wiki. > > > > I understand your frustration, but it is clear there is very little > > interest in keeping that theme in the project. > > > > > > Adrian Crum > > Sandglass Software > > www.sandglass-software.com > > > > On 10/16/2014 5:25 PM, Mike wrote: > > > >> Speaking of themes, I was really upset when the ofbiz developers > "yanked" > >> out the original backend theme for ofbiz designed by Dave. It was > >> elegantly simplistic and functional, and also many books were written > >> showing it. > >> > >> The reasons? Time to move on, time to upgrade, needs a newer polished > >> look, bla bla bla. All of the newer themes are not as good as the > >> original. > >> > >> At the time, ALL documentation, ALL examples, ALL books had oldschool as > >> screenshot examples. > >> > >> Yes, I know "oldschool" is still available, and I do use it, but it does > >> demonstrate that the few commiters blatantly make substantial changes > (on > >> a > >> whim) w/o consulting the community or even thinking things through. > >> > >> [rant complete] > >> > >> > >> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Jacques Le Roux < > >> [email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >>> > >>> I updated the https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/ > >>> Visual+Themes+-+How+to page, notably for new releases but not only, > >>> please review. > >>> > >>> I wonder if we should keep https://cwiki.apache.org/ > >>> confluence/display/OFBIZ/Visual+Themes+Gallery which is completly out > >>> dated and seems nobody care about creating and updating themes :/ > >>> > >>> Jacques > >>> > >>> > >> >
