[Plone-UI] [Plone-developers] Plone 5 Theme

Dylan Jay djay at pretaweb.com
Mon Nov 18 20:53:20 UTC 2013


On 19 Nov 2013 03:44, "Timo Stollenwerk" <tisto at plone.org> wrote:
>
> Am 18.11.2013 17:31, schrieb Rok Garbas:
> > Quoting Timo Stollenwerk (2013-11-18 16:44:16)
> >> Am 18.11.2013 16:23, schrieb Ramon Navarro Bosch:
> >>> Mainly for two reasons:
> >>>
> >>> * In most of our use cases the client prefers no modals ( there is a
lot
> >>> of content edition and they love to see the edit and the view with the
> >>> same skin )
> >>
> >> + 100
> >>
> >> Not having a separation between backend and frontend has always been
one
> >> of the biggest selling points of the Plone UI. As far as I can tell
> >> other CMSes are trying to get rid of that separation for a good reason.
> >>
> >
> > i think we talked already about this. separation is only from techical
point of
> > view. from UI point of view its shown on the same page.
>
> This will not work automatically, right? You still have to adapt the CSS
> to get the same styles (merge it into the backend styles). If you want
> the same experience as we have now, we either have to adapt the size of
> the overlay (which is quite hard I think, especially if page layouts
> differ) or we have to use full size overlays which will not show any
> other parts of the site.
>

I don't think going back to what we had is an option. Maybe only 5% of
themes or less are going to care about overlays
But
perhaps we can look at a mode of operation where the themer can opt to
replace overlays with HTML dynamically injected into a div in their page?
Then it's up to theme to make this look nice and include right CSS etc?
Could also work for toolbar itself.
Alternatively if toolbar is OK but overlays are not, perhaps we should look
at another ui than a modal popup, like left slideout drawer. Would that be
better?

> >> We are about to go into the opposite direction "to make theming easier"
> >> (which was the original point of p.a.toolbar if I recall correctly).
> >> Though, according to Ramon and what I saw so far theming will become
> >> more complicated with p.a.toolbar.
> >>
> >
> > not sure where you got that. but if you're referring to
plonetheme.barceloneta
> > then that theme is not a regular theme since its built using mockup
patterns.
> > which requires knowledge how to work with patterns.
> >
> > for theme to work one or two lines of rules will be needed for
p.a.toolbar to
> > work. thats how it was designed.
> >
> >
> >>> * In most of our use cases the client needs specific edit forms
(skinned
> >>> and layout) so it's common that we need to skin also the backend and
the
> >>> edit forms layout.
> >>
> >> Same here. Right now I can't imaging to use p.a.toolbar/modals (again)
> >> for my customer projects (for UI as well as technical reasons that I
> >> pointed out before) and I would really like to see a Plone 5 where I'm
> >> not forced to use overlays.

Is it just overlays that are the problem?

> >
> > that is going to be possible.
>
> That's all I ask for. :)
>
> Cheers,
> Timo
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