1) Sounds good. If we can't have a choice of theme in admin, at least we can get a better looking one. 2) Good idea!
On Mar 7, 1:50 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > I think there are two different issues. > 1) have a better looking admin > 2) give more options for scaffolding app (this include a choice of > layout) > > 1) So far using a wordpress-like css would be my preferred choice. > 2) The problems is that we cannot package too many files with the > scaffolding app because they scare people away. > What about include in admin a plugin to download "layout" plugins from > the web (including image preview of the layout)? > It would be easy to do within the current plugin system. We could have > a blueprint plugin and a jquery.ui themes plugin for example. > > Massimo > > On Mar 6, 9:58 am, FaustCoder <arcaneli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > +2 > > > On Mar 6, 8:55 am, "mr.freeze" <nat...@freezable.com> wrote: > > > > They are under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license - free for > > > use commercially or non-commercially provided you put a link somewhere > > > in the template back to freecsstemplates.org. Even this can be > > > bypassed with the author's permission. They can be modified and > > > redistributed. That doesn't seem restrictive. > > > > On Mar 6, 2:01 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > > > > The problem here is legal. We cannot distributed with the scaffolding > > > > app, page templates that have a restrictive license. The current > > > > template is not great but is made of images and css that are public > > > > domain so no problem is you build on those. > > > > > I proposed wordpress theme for admin (and admin only) because > > > > wordpress is GPL therefore it is compatible with admin. We could not > > > > use wordpress theme for the scaffoling app because it would restrict > > > > users. > > > > > On Mar 6, 12:08 am, Jason Brower <encomp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > But then this isn't automated. First time I have seen it, so if it's > > > > > in > > > > > the application built in I missed it. And let's not forget lots of us, > > > > > like me don't have internet all the time. > > > > > BR, > > > > > Jason > > > > > > On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 20:27 -0800, mdipierro wrote: > > > > > > Why when they can already chose hundreds from web2py.com/layouts > > > > > > What somebody should actually do is go over them all and delete > > > > > > some. > > > > > > Some do not look very nice because tha conversion process broke > > > > > > them. > > > > > > > Massimo > > > > > > > On Mar 5, 10:24 pm, weheh <richard_gor...@verizon.net> wrote: > > > > > > > +1 > > > > > > > > On Mar 5, 11:19 pm, "mr.freeze" <nat...@freezable.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Idea: tweak 10 (or more) of the best gpl css templates we can > > > > > > > > find to > > > > > > > > work with web2py and give people a choice of templates when they > > > > > > > > create an app. Also, change admin to use one of these. I > > > > > > > > think the > > > > > > > > welcome and admin apps look too utilitarian and web 1.0 (no > > > > > > > > offense to > > > > > > > > whoever designed them). > > > > > > > > > Thoughts? > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
