[Plone-UI] UI Team meeting recap

Nathan Van Gheem vangheem at gmail.com
Wed Dec 12 14:30:11 UTC 2012


Dylan,

I share your concerns. I'm inclined to say that we get the widgets out
right away that are needed to release and then worry about patterns.


On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Dylan Jay <djay at pretaweb.com> wrote:

>
> On 12/12/2012, at 8:02 AM, Nathan Van Gheem <vangheem at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Notes from the meeting are at:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZQVjjuFO1Rt3XSY-7Rvx54eATq_f3Ggn3GpRpHDpi5M/edit
>
> Action items:
>
> - Please test deco if you haven't already:
> https://github.com/plone/buildout.deco
> - Widgets! We need to get widgets working with toolbar overlays. Look at
> http://garbas.github.com/plone-mockup/ for use a patterns to start work
> on widgets
>
>
> I'm concerned that even if patterns is a good way to go with widgets in
> the future, it could delay us to getting a working toolbar in the mean time.
>
> I'm wondering if there is something inbetween how the toolbar currently
> works and the end goal of everything in overlays... such that it's
> backwards compatible and it works now.
>
> The current state of the toolbar is that some links in the toolbar result
> in an overlay and some just reload the entire page. e.g. here is the
> sharing tab which reloads the entire page
>
>
>
> What if instead of loading the entire page, clicking on "sharing" just
> reloaded the html inside the toolbar iframe. The sharing part gets loaded
> along with the toolbar inside the toolbar iframe, and because it's a normal
> page load all existing widgets should work.
> It should look something like this. Everything above plone logo is in a
> single iframe. everything below is the main document and hasn't been
> reloaded.
>
>
>
> then, one by one, as we get each page working properly in an overlay, we
> switch that overlay link to dynamically loading the overlay.
>
> Then we have a smoother transition to both diazo (since you don't have the
> overhead of contending with Plone css conflicts) and to deco and a fully
> overlay driven toolbar.
>
>
>
> - Rob and Nathan need to start work on new deco layout editor
> - https://github.com/plone/plone.app.standardtiles -- need work on how to
> initialize editing of tile replacements
> - Theme integrations: https://dev.plone.org/ticket/13355 -- new base
> sunburst theme that is responsive, include base theme of bootstrap,
> foundation, h5bp: plonetheme.startup?
>
> Participants:
>
> Nathan Van Gheem
> Joel Kleier
> Rob Porter(Happy birthday)
> Dylan Jay
> Thijs Jonkman
> John Hren
> Rob Gietema
> Rok Garbas
> Roche Compaan
>
>
> Let me know if I'm missing anything. Thanks everyone for joining!
>
>
> -Nathan
>
>
>
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