Re: [Fofredux-devel] UI Redesign version Cool

[Andrew T. <ajt...@hi...>]

Major items should be put on the FoFRedux bug items in Sourceforge,
small items can just be posted to the list.

Examples:
Big: Add ajax to marking/saving items
Small: aligning the Add button on the feeds form to fit inline

Andrew

On 8/6/06, Broken Kode <bro...@gm...> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Just installed it and having a look around at the things that need to be
> done. First off I just want to say thanks to be Walker and Andrew for
> getting it all together and putting it on the page so to speak.
>
> Now it's just time for refining and tweaking, another month of hammering
> and we should be ready for the next level . All extremely exciting stuff
> to be honest.
>
> I propose I make a list of the things that need to be sorted out and
> then we can tick them off one by one. Maybe get a backpack page and just
> put everything in there so that everyone can see what needs to be done.
> Everyone up for using backpack or should I use just the mailing list?
> I'm cool with either as long as it's easy for everyone to refer to it
> and it's clear as to what still needs to be done.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 19:21 -0400, Andrew Turner wrote:
> > Ok - so the first full checkin of the UI redesign has been commited
> > (r490 for those of you keeping score at home). If you've updated
> > recently, you'll have been enticed by the very pretty login page, but
> > then reminded of the white-horridness that was FOF. This is no more.
> >
> > This revision covers all the major aspects of the UI change, and basic
> > functionality of FoFRedux still exists. Nothing in the "engine" was
> > changed, so there is no expected danger to your database with this
> > upgrade. But as with any dev version, YMMV, Author not responsible for
> > lost data, run this at your own risk, always use protection (i.e. run
> > on a test DB)
> >
> > The next big steps are to
> >
> > 1) hopefully have Walker or Khaled get the current version and tweak
> > up a couple of layout/colors that I couldn't get quite right. Some
> > buttons are out of place (or could use pretty image buttons) and some
> > of the FamFam silk icons need their color-shifted to match Khaled's
> > original design.
> >
> > 2) Add the Prototype.js Javascript library and start tying in
> > Asyncronous functionality
> >
> > 3) Clean up the "view" break-out some more. This UI change tried to
> > change as little as possible along the way, but small steps were made,
> > like making view/feed_item.php which is a single view of a feed
> > (imagine that). This would be nice to break out for more elements and
> > forms
> > 4) Feeds are not grouped by category on the front page (they're all
> > animation) so will need to sort feeds and break them up by category
> > listing.
> >
> > Let me know if you have any major problems. There are many small bugs
> > that I'm sure exist that will get corrected as the above 4 actions are
> > finished.
> >
> > Thanks everyone!
> > Andrew
> >
> >
> >
>
>


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