From: Alexander H. <xp...@hy...> - 2006-03-26 13:44:21
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Hello Hans, while it is interesting what you did to the Mantis layout... I must admit that I don't see too much improvement on its usability. And (please understand that I don't want to insult you!) the design is plain ugly (just *my* 2 cents!). Ok, as you said it isn't ready yet. So I may judge too hard. ;-) But you definitely have to work on the design: - Small fonts - annoying yellow background - Links, normal text and input fields/areas aren't really easy to distinguish Ok, my criticism might be too far gone, as your project seems to be in the beginning phase. (but I had to say that) I just hope that this won't be another fork like Joe Kramer's on http://enargi.com. Mantis surely needs an improvement on the UI side. But for that I think it would be more reasonable to join forces and improve on the main Mantis code base and not on different forks! Regards, Alexander Hybel SYNSPACE - Hans Stienen schrieb: > Dear subscribers > > I hope my message will arrive this time at the audience I would like > to address. > > Some times ago I started working on a template-based version of > Mantis. The goals are clear, separating layout from application logic. > After several tries I went to *HTML_Template_Sigma* and it worked well. > > Then I became more ambitious and started refactoring also other parts > of the code as well. The result is not yet ready, e.g. it works only > with Firefox, but before other people start to invest their time in > similar activities, they may have a look at http://www.akqit.ch/Mantis > - you can login as guest or administrator. I didn't change the password. > > Some days ago I also started documenting what I did so far and used a > Wikkawiki for that purpose. Try http://www.akqit.ch/wikka or the llink > '-> Mantis Issue Tracker' in the horizontal bar when you are logged in. > > PS: http://www.akqit.ch <http://www.akqit.ch/> is only a temporary > home. I will move to http://www.protracq.org > <http://www.protracq.org/> soon. > > Regards > > Hans Stienen > > SYNSPACE AG > Hardstrasse 11 > CH-4052 Basel > > http://www.synspace.com <http://www.synspace.com/> > |