Joshua Ferraro wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 3:28 AM, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip] >> Can we put the Plone site into the long grass until after 3.0 is out >> and we've a few deployments under our belt, please? You say you've >> not got time to work on it or run a normal vote, we've not had time to >> convert the current design, I doubt many people have got time to learn >> how to edit Plone just now and kea isn't that much worse. > To edit a plone site, you click on edit. It sounds like the skin2 site hasn't > had the user profiles set up the way that koha.org will. > > MJ, you're the only one to raise an objection to plone and suggest that we > should delay the website update -- that's hardly concensus. The multi-lingual > needs of our community alone are serious incentive to get this finished. As > I've stated in the past, there are some folks who have been waiting to have > a koha.org in their language for YEARS. > > It sounds like you and paul prefer aspects of the current koha.org design, > but I haven't heard any specifics yet. It's very possible we could include > those aspects into the final plone skin. Either of you care to elaborate on > what it is about the current design that you like? What I heard Paul say was "colors" and "shapes". To quote: > Note also that I understand the interest of Plone. But I think at this > moment, that the design (colors, round squares, blue/white/green...) are > better than the 3 proposals. So I wonder if we could not keep the design > AND switch to plone. (...and I have to apologize for going down the rabbit trail of CSS and layout - the poll explicitly states "Focus on the graphical aspects of the web design such as color, style, and fonts."). Color: ------ I understand that color styles/preferences change over time, but skin #2 is simply UGLY in my unenlightened view. Skin #1 is based on a little darker shade of green than koha.org and little, if any, of the blue. I see the green as the same basic color as koha.org. Skin #3 is a "brighter" (lighter) shade than koha.org, and uses both the green and the blue. Again, I see the same basic colors, different shade. It also isn't using the gradient on the blocks of color. Style: ------ Skin #1 has the rounded box look like koha.org, although the layout is quite different - koha.org's top "box" is a fully rounded stand-alone block where Skin #1 the top part is a full width black banner. I like Skin #1's effect somewhat better, but cannot justify why. (I've previously commented on Skin #1's (and koha.org's) limitations on reflowing text and rescaling the header as the window gets bigger or smaller - I believe this is driven by the round edge graphics approach used to make the rounded boxes.) Skin #2 has a very spartan, square box look to me. UGLY. Skin #3 is angular, but not the "smack you in the face with square boxes" look of #2. I actually prefer this of the three. My bias is that I'm more of a Nokia N800 kinda guy than an iPhone kinda guy (utilitarian rather than stylin'). Fonts: ------ I cannot see any difference in fonts. Other: ------ Plone can give registered users a choice of skins. All four (and more) skins could theoretically be supported, but that obviously adds to initial and maintenance costs. My personal take: Anything but #2. Best regards, gvb _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
