[Plone-UI] Plone 5 theme status

Rob Porter robzonenet at gmail.com
Fri Oct 18 21:39:01 UTC 2013 

I was going to help theme it, taking over where Thijs left off. Then boom Craig is gone. Now I am a server admin and such

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> On Oct 18, 2013, at 5:34 PM, Nathan Van Gheem <nathan at vangheem.us> wrote:
> 
> What is your role to do with it Rob? Is there a mockup done already?
> 
> 
>> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Rob Porter <robzonenet at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I haven't done anything as of yet. With Craig leaving weblion I have been swamped. It is set up for me to do next iteration(next week) or so.  
>> 
>> 
>>> On Oct 18, 2013, at 4:26 PM, Nathan Van Gheem <nathan at vangheem.us> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I wouldn't be against going down the bootsrap path with bootswatch at this point. It'd mean a lot of things would be done for us and we don't have to maintain the theme as much potentially.
>>> 
>>> That being said, Ramon, others, what is the current status of the new theme?
>>> 
>>> Plone core at this point really needs a diazo based theme.
>>> 
>>> I heard that maybe a mockup was done during the conference sprints? Where is that? Could we get someone to create the diazo rules for that? Or merge that into Thijs' work?
>>> 
>>> Just a little poke here. Let me know know if I can help coordinate any of these efforts.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Nathan
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Guido Stevens <guido.stevens at cosent.net> wrote:
>>>> I may be off the mark here, but I'd love the Plone theming story to be like: grab any Bootswatch theme you like, drop it into static and off you go adding your own customizations.
>>>> 
>>>> That would imply using the bootstrap3 responsive grid, which supports content reordering. And it would require a base markup + rules.xml combination that results in a well-themed site.
>>>> 
>>>> If we're talking about having a mainstream theming story where frontend theming can be completely agnostic of Plone specifics, why not go for Bootstrap?
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>>>>> On 1 okt. 2013, at 09:12, Dylan Jay <djay at pretaweb.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Are you sure?
>>>>> It would be good if possible to use something well supporting. We have a long history in plone in picking less popular texhinologies and then regretting it later as they are pulled out abs replaced. Perhaps it is better to pick something popular that might grow the features you want in the future?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Dylan Jay
>>>>> Technical solution manager
>>>>> PretaWeb 99552830
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 01/10/2013, at 9:04 AM, Thijs Jonkman <t.jonkman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Nathan Van Gheem <nathan at vangheem.us> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Ramon Navarro Bosch <ramon.nb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> I have some doubts about it,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> don't have doubts until you know why we made those decisions :)
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> * It's using jbot ( and if it's plone core default theme shouldn't be like that in my opinion ).
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> We know, those will get merged in when it's ready. Easier than making branches of 10 different packages.
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> * It's using deco-gs grid ?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Is it? Thijs did mention he really liked deco-gs. We'd be open to changes.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Yes, still using deco gs for now. All the other lightweight grid system I've seen do not have content reordering capabilities, which I think it should have. There are more complex grid systems that do have it, but in a lightweight theme I thought deco more fitting. 
>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>> * Where is the mockup of the theme ?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> https://github.com/collective/uiteam has the original UI concept.
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> R
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 2013/10/1 Nathan Van Gheem <nathan at vangheem.us>
>>>>>>>>> We're actually looking for someone to take up the lead of that project again. 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I have someone that's interested in helping but probably can't lead it.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Current work is: https://github.com/plone/diazotheme.coolblue
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> We're going to make everything less so we need to convert all those sass styles to less.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 6:44 AM, Ramon Navarro Bosch <ramon.nb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> I would like to know which is the status of plone 5 theme on diazo. I remember that long time ago we discussed about OOCSS and LESS/SASS and there were some mockups about the design. Is there any repository, place were I can take a look at it ?
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> R
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>>>>>> Ramon a.k.a bloodbare
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