[Plone-UI] review some plips and thoughts

Cris Ewing cris at crisewing.com
Tue Dec 4 14:43:29 UTC 2012


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On Dec 4, 2012, at 6:18 AM, Nathan Van Gheem <vangheem at gmail.com> wrote:

> Everyone okay with meeting next week?
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 2:34 AM, Roché Compaan <roche at upfrontsystems.co.za> wrote:
> I'm already leaving for holiday on the 14th but would be available for
> a UI meeting next week.
> 
> --
> Roché Compaan
> Upfront Systems                   http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 6:22 AM, Nathan Van Gheem <vangheem at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I wasn't planning on a UI team meeting until the 18th. Is that too close to
> > Christmas? Tomorrow is too close although we do have good things to talk
> > about with all the work Thijs has done.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Rob Porter <robzonenet at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I will try this tomorrow.  Speaking of tomorrow, are we meeting?
> >>
> >> Sent from my mobile device
> >>
> >> On Dec 3, 2012, at 6:39 PM, Thijs Jonkman <t.jonkman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> Got an update on themes in https://dev.plone.org/ticket/13355.
> >>
> >> I turned the three flavours of HTML5 Boilerplate into Diazo themes
> >> (several levels of difficulty). Try:
> >> https://github.com/TH-code/plonetheme.h5bp
> >>
> >> This led me to mocking about with bootstrap a bit more. Try out:
> >> https://github.com/TH-code/plonetheme.bootstrap
> >>
> >> Have a go at them and give me some feedback :-)
> >> THijs
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Dylan Jay <djay at pretaweb.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 01/12/2012, at 3:08 AM, Nathan Van Gheem <vangheem at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Thijs Jonkman <t.jonkman at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi All,
> >>>>
> >>>> (Thanks Nathan)
> >>>>
> >>>> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Nathan Van Gheem <vangheem at gmail.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hi all,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Could everyone review these plips and implementations and give some
> >>>>> thoughts. Thijs has already done some great work and I'm not sure the best
> >>>>> route to go here and I'd hate to waste too much of his time.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> https://dev.plone.org/ticket/13355
> >>>>> https://dev.plone.org/ticket/13358
> >>>>>
> >>>>> What we're aiming for and thoughts:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> - plone ship with default diazo theme
> >>>>> - so people has a very basic way to get started using diazo(they won't
> >>>>> have to create their own theme if they want to make some tweaks to move
> >>>>> elements around)
> >>>>> - should the theme still work without diazo? I think so.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I think we don't need to have the old and new style of the same theme.
> >>>> Reasons:
> >>>> - Avoid confusion for users (I have a sunburst theme under Themes and
> >>>> Diazo themes, what gives?)
> >>>
> >>> The idea is it'd give people an easy starting point to modify the theme
> >>> via the diazo theme editor.
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> - Maintain two nearly identical css codebases that achieve the same
> >>>> through different routes (not DRY)
> >>>
> >>> Still keep all the css in the same spot--skins for now. Otherwise, we
> >>> don't get portal_css merging and everything.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> We really need to come up with a way of doing merging that works better
> >>> with diazo. It doesn't make sense for the CSS to be so decoupled from the
> >>> theme.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> - Why have two ways to achieve the same goal?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I've created a sunburst and a classic one. I can see the classic theme
> >>>> being done old style and sunburst through diazo, showing both theming ways
> >>>> for people new to plone.
> >>>>
> >>>> Why do you think the theme should work without Diazo? To not have
> >>>> plone.app.theming be obligatorily installed?
> >>>
> >>> Yes. Think of all the people who have based their themes on sunburst and
> >>> now their themes will break unless they're forced into using diazo.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> +1. We have a lot of diazo themes based on sunburst. Backwards
> >>> compatibility is really important. Same applies to skins. We need to
> >>> deprecate before we remove.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> - should we still use skin layers? I think so.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I don't really see a reason for that with a Diazo theme either. Maybe
> >>>> for jbot fun? But if you're going that route for customization, you could
> >>>> add a browser layer. Or apply it to all of plone...
> >>>
> >>> plone core shouldn't require the jbot package.
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Why should we use them?
> >>>
> >>> Because everyone's current themes depend on it.
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> - migration and upgrades
> >>>>> - what package should we put the theme in? Would it be confusing for
> >>>>> plonetheme.sunburst to have normal theme and diazo theme?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I would move the plonetheme packages to a 2.0 version with Diazo themes
> >>>> and keep the old themes in the 1.x versions.
> >>>
> >>> That's a possibility.
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Ideas anyone?
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I think Plip 13358 needs to be roled into plone asap, Plip 13355 can
> >>>> definitely use some input :-)
> >>>
> >>> Agreed.
> >>>
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