I know there have been several people on the team designing the conductor UI and I've
got a question that is not intended to disrupt current work on widget and theme design;
however, has there been decisions made regarding reusing the same jquery widgets across
Conductor and Katello? It seems to me we can save a bit of time from widget design if we
take this approach. The process of implementing a widget requires imagining layout and
behavior, creating images that represent the ideas, slicing the images up and then
figuring out how to implement the behavior takes A LOT of time. I'm not sure if
anyone has specifically decided to not look for a similar UI problem in Katello and just
use the same solution in Conductor (or vice versa if Conductor solves a similar problem
before Katello does). I'm not suggesting UI look and feel unification, I know that is
a discussion that has happened and decisions were made. I'm suggesting widget reuse.
The specific problem that got me thinking about this was, I had looked at Ken's
deployable design at roughly the same time I installed the Katello application. The idea
of contextual display in Katallo for a content Provider using a jquery widget was very
similar to the problem of contextual display of a Catalogs images. I'm not knocking
Ken's Conductor designs, they are indeed stellar. It's just that I know it takes
a tremendous amount of work to get from idea to implementation. Does anyone on the list
have strong feelings for or against taking the widget reuse approach?
- Chris
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