On 08/03/2009 10:20 AM, Michael DeHaan wrote:
On 08/01/2009 04:45 PM, Ian Meyer wrote:
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Michael DeHaan<mdehaan@redhat.com> wrote:
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Anyone want to make Cobbler web look a bit more professional?

By reusing the orange we have in the logo, it sort of looks like a giant
pumpkin or perhaps a web page about Creamsicles.   Surely you don't want
that, right? <LOL>.   Yeah, I don't even like orange myself.   It must
go :)  If you leave it to me it will all end up red and white with
wolves on it, so I'm not sure you want that either :)

Anyway, take a look at let me know what you think.   I'm sure there are
folks that can drop some more CSS love onto it, and probably also some
other neat jQuery tips and tricks.
    

I took a stab at a few things with the app.. mainly: recolorizing it,
fixing the menu to look a bit more streamlined, fixing the markup.

I felt the [+] cluttered the menu too much so I went the route of
having expandable menus using jquery. I took some screencaps of how it
looks and put them up here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/imeyer/sets/72157621790516365/ .. it's
just preliminary, and there is a good amount of markup sanitization
done.

I'm not totally psyched on the color scheme.. it was sort of a second
thought to the menu re-design.

I'd love some feedback!

- Ian

  

Sharp menus.   They do look a lot better.

I like the whiter one for colors, we can perhaps tweak them from there if we want.

Do you have the code/git somewhere where I could try it out live and merge it?

--Michael




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Hey Ian,

Thanks again for doing this.

I have some comments from the "live" test, mostly just colors stuff which is easy to fix.

I'm going to hold off merging these just yet as the left hand side menu (to me) seems broken, but I am more than happy to help work on color scheme and other layout issues with you if you're interested, and those aren't blocking a merge.

In many ways these are just comments on Cobbler Web in general, not just your changes:

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In the left hand side menu:

The "add" link is not auto expanding for me (Firefox 3.5b4, Fedora 11) -- I only get this when clicking on the ">>" sign for some objects, and that doesn't work for profiles.  (this is the only must fix)

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On the object list pages

** wow this looks amazingly cleaner.  One small fix is the cursor should change to an arrow when hovering over the action links, which currently (on my machine, anyway, it shows as the vertical "][" insert cursor.

** the color differential between even/odd rows is too subtle for me

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On the object edit pages:

**  the field names on the left column are now aligned center with the tooltip.  They should be aligned with the field itself OR otherwise we need to do the django even/odd color row highlighting to make that more obvious what they go with.

**  the tooltip block highlighting seems to make it look very much like a text field, which is confusing to me.   I'd consider not doing to the block highlighting
on the tooltip so it doesn't look like a field.

** the expand/collapse section colors are too close to the colors of the fields/tooltips   (How about blue backgrounds for the sections like on the object list pages?  That looks great)

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On the "Import DVD" page:

**  the tooltips align differently than on the edit pages

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On various pages, such as "Events", the caption of the page is just flat text.     If it looked like the table header from "Distro List" that would make the section
headers a lot easier to read.  Ditto that on "Check".   On the settings page we can probably simplify and say ("Setting", "Value (Read Only)") and still use the table layout.

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On a list page, I see that we're going to need to find a way to compress the "Pagination" widget so the "<" and ">" arrows can fit on the same line.   (probably something I broke).

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In all I like that the menu is a lot cleaner, but we do need to see why it's not working in latest firefox.

Anyway, if you would like to hack on some of this, that would be immensely welcome -- though the only thing blocking the merge, I think, is getting the menus functional under the latest Firefox.

If you have a MSIE machine (I do not) we probably also want to test that there at some point once we think it's right in FF.   I do have access to Safari.

Thanks!

--Michael