Hello Tim:
If this a tool for convincing people to use OFBiz, then IMO, we are way
off the mark. The backend applications where the BiznessTime theme has
been applied are designed for end-users who may not and probably do not
have any experience with HTML or CSS. Lets not forget who our audience
is here.
If the foundation, as you say is so solid (and I have not doubt that it
is), then reverting back to a simpler yet more accessible theme should
be the way to go. Fancier is not always better.
On another note, could you point me to the end-user documentation
covering creating new themes. I'd be happy to try this out and post my
findings.
Regards,
Ruth
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Tim Ruppert wrote:
We exclusively use the BizznessTime theme with clients because it's
WAY easier to change, skin and adapt to everyone's liking / look and
feel. I think it would be a huge mistake to roll it back to the Flat
Grey as we have not had any of the same problems once everyone gets
over the initial shock of seeing something different.
If the community wants to roll it back - then go for it - but it isn't
wise. FIX the problems that you don't like in the BizznessTime theme,
or create one of your own - it's easy to do - this is a much more
solid foundation to build on then the old (and looking really old)
theme that's been in there since the beginning. Have any of you tried
to edit the CSS to make any changes that might not make it so "large"?
It should be pretty easy with this setup.
Anyways, think on it and do what you will do, but remember this is
still a tool for convincing people to use OFBiz. I'd leave this in
place and change it to the ugly, ugly in your own installations before
I wanted to go back to Flay Grey as a sales tool ....
Cheers,
Ruppert
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On Oct 13, 2009, at 3:40 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
Hi Hans,
So far,
* it seems that most people find things too large and prefer to zoom out.
* it seems also that not much specific bugs were reported, and those
reported should be easily fixed (not quite sure though...)
I repeat myself about where to report about this subject : create a
subtask at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-2398
In his 1st reply Chris Snow suggested a change. But I'm not sure it's
enough for doing the same thing as a zoom out
Maybe we could ask Ryan Foster if it's possble to shrink the size (of
everything ) else we may vote for the "return of Flat Grey" as default
theme.
What do you people think ?
Jacques
PS : Hans I saw you opened a subtask for the field size issue, thanks!
From: "Hans Bakker" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
Sure the Business theme looks good but.....
The general problem is that the characters, fields and actually
everything is far too big....If i specify a field to be 2 characters, at
least 5 fit in....
So set the default to flat_gray in general properties is perhaps better.
Regards,
Hans
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 16:19 +0200, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to know what the community thinks about Bizness Time as
default theme.
Do you use it?
Do you change for another theme ?
Which one fo you prefer?
Did you find bugs in one of the theme but not another?
Thanks
Jacques
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