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Posted to user@vcl.apache.org by Andy Kurth <an...@ncsu.edu> on 2013/08/20 19:29:33 UTC
Re: VCL Theme
Hi Aaron,
Looks good. I'd like the default theme shipped with the next major
release to be redone. It's quite long in the tooth. This would be a
good start. What do you think about having the default theme shipped
be similar to the vcl.apache.org site for consistency?
I like how the management links are much less prominent. I like to
see the overall organization of things be reworked for the next
release -- with things centered around a single page to manage your
reservations including the combination of the New Reservations and
Current Reservations pages. Administrative/management functions
should be hidden most of the time and much less prominent.
There are some topics related to this which would be more appropriate
for the dev list but regarding jQuery, how do you think it compares to
Dojo with respect to VCL? Any pros/cons you can think of?
Thanks,
Andy
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Aaron Coburn <ac...@amherst.edu> wrote:
> Hi, Folks,
>
> In case any one is interested, I have been doing a bit of work on a custom
> VCL theme for our installation.
> The theme is pretty minimalistic, but it completely changes how the menu is
> organized -- and bears very little resemblance to the default theme. It also
> makes heavy use of the twitter-bootstrap framework (for CSS) and jQuery (for
> some custom javascript). As far as I know, this doesn't require any code
> changes to the VCL (in our instance, I added a few lines of code to
> .ht-inc/authentication.php in order to have a custom "selectAuth" page).
> Also, in our instance, I modified the 'connectmethod' text in the database
> for ssh and RDP, but those templates are included with this code.
>
> I made a screen shot available, in case you are interested [1].
>
> And all of the code is available on GitHub [2].
>
> -Aaron
>
>
> [1] https://vcl.fivecolleges.edu/images/vcl-theme.png
> [2] https://github.com/acoburn/vcl-theme-fivecolleges
>
>
> --
> Aaron Coburn
> Academic Technology Services, Amherst College
> acoburn@amherst.edu
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
Re: VCL Theme
Posted by Josh Thompson <jo...@ncsu.edu>.
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I've been reworking the New Reservation/Current Reservations pages to combine
them into a single "Reservations" page where you can create new reservations
and view and manage existing reservations in a more dynamic way instead of
going through a sequence of pages. So, that will be included in the next
release.
Josh
On Tuesday, August 20, 2013 1:29:33 PM Andy Kurth wrote:
> Hi Aaron,
> Looks good. I'd like the default theme shipped with the next major
> release to be redone. It's quite long in the tooth. This would be a
> good start. What do you think about having the default theme shipped
> be similar to the vcl.apache.org site for consistency?
>
> I like how the management links are much less prominent. I like to
> see the overall organization of things be reworked for the next
> release -- with things centered around a single page to manage your
> reservations including the combination of the New Reservations and
> Current Reservations pages. Administrative/management functions
> should be hidden most of the time and much less prominent.
>
> There are some topics related to this which would be more appropriate
> for the dev list but regarding jQuery, how do you think it compares to
> Dojo with respect to VCL? Any pros/cons you can think of?
>
> Thanks,
> Andy
>
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Aaron Coburn <ac...@amherst.edu> wrote:
> > Hi, Folks,
> >
> > In case any one is interested, I have been doing a bit of work on a custom
> > VCL theme for our installation.
> > The theme is pretty minimalistic, but it completely changes how the menu
> > is
> > organized -- and bears very little resemblance to the default theme. It
> > also makes heavy use of the twitter-bootstrap framework (for CSS) and
> > jQuery (for some custom javascript). As far as I know, this doesn't
> > require any code changes to the VCL (in our instance, I added a few lines
> > of code to .ht-inc/authentication.php in order to have a custom
> > "selectAuth" page). Also, in our instance, I modified the 'connectmethod'
> > text in the database for ssh and RDP, but those templates are included
> > with this code.
> >
> > I made a screen shot available, in case you are interested [1].
> >
> > And all of the code is available on GitHub [2].
> >
> > -Aaron
> >
> >
> > [1] https://vcl.fivecolleges.edu/images/vcl-theme.png
> > [2] https://github.com/acoburn/vcl-theme-fivecolleges
> >
> >
> > --
> > Aaron Coburn
> > Academic Technology Services, Amherst College
> > acoburn@amherst.edu
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VCL Developer
North Carolina State University
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Re: VCL Theme
Posted by Aaron Coburn <ac...@amherst.edu>.
Moving this to the dev list...
Hi Aaron,
Looks good. I'd like the default theme shipped with the next major
release to be redone. It's quite long in the tooth. This would be a
good start. What do you think about having the default theme shipped
be similar to the vcl.apache.org<http://vcl.apache.org> site for consistency?
That sounds really good to me.
I like how the management links are much less prominent. I like to
see the overall organization of things be reworked for the next
release -- with things centered around a single page to manage your
reservations including the combination of the New Reservations and
Current Reservations pages. Administrative/management functions
should be hidden most of the time and much less prominent.
There are some topics related to this which would be more appropriate
for the dev list but regarding jQuery, how do you think it compares to
Dojo with respect to VCL? Any pros/cons you can think of?
I have done much more development work with jQuery than with Dojo, so I am more positively inclined toward that library. Dojo does provide a lot of UI widgets along with the charts and graphs used in the reporting section, and these are not present in the core jQuery library. That said, most of the UI elements that Dojo provides could be swapped out for jQuery UI [1] or bootstrap [2] code, both of which have a much smaller footprint than Dojo. And for the graphing utilities, d3.js [3] is an excellent choice (it also has a small footprint).
In the context of rethinking the UI, one thing to consider is the fact that there is so much HTML mixed into the PHP code. If I had my druthers (and a lot of extra time) I would rework the php code so that it generates only JSON. Effectively, the VCL front end would become a RESTful api, and then any javascript would render that data with some type of template system.
A somewhat more realistic option might be to use a template system like mustache [4] (ideally) or Smarty [5] from within the PHP code.
Best regards,
Aaron
[1] http://jqueryui.com
[2] http://getbootstrap.com
[3] http://d3js.org
[4] http://mustache.github.io
[4] http://www.smarty.net
--
Aaron Coburn
System Administrator / Programmer
Web Services, Amherst College
acoburn@amherst.edu<ma...@amherst.edu>
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Aaron Coburn <ac...@amherst.edu>> wrote:
Hi, Folks,
In case any one is interested, I have been doing a bit of work on a custom
VCL theme for our installation.
The theme is pretty minimalistic, but it completely changes how the menu is
organized -- and bears very little resemblance to the default theme. It also
makes heavy use of the twitter-bootstrap framework (for CSS) and jQuery (for
some custom javascript). As far as I know, this doesn't require any code
changes to the VCL (in our instance, I added a few lines of code to
.ht-inc/authentication.php in order to have a custom "selectAuth" page).
Also, in our instance, I modified the 'connectmethod' text in the database
for ssh and RDP, but those templates are included with this code.
I made a screen shot available, in case you are interested [1].
And all of the code is available on GitHub [2].
-Aaron
[1] https://vcl.fivecolleges.edu/images/vcl-theme.png
[2] https://github.com/acoburn/vcl-theme-fivecolleges
--
Aaron Coburn
Academic Technology Services, Amherst College
acoburn@amherst.edu<ma...@amherst.edu>
Re: VCL Theme
Posted by Josh Thompson <jo...@ncsu.edu>.
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I've been reworking the New Reservation/Current Reservations pages to combine
them into a single "Reservations" page where you can create new reservations
and view and manage existing reservations in a more dynamic way instead of
going through a sequence of pages. So, that will be included in the next
release.
Josh
On Tuesday, August 20, 2013 1:29:33 PM Andy Kurth wrote:
> Hi Aaron,
> Looks good. I'd like the default theme shipped with the next major
> release to be redone. It's quite long in the tooth. This would be a
> good start. What do you think about having the default theme shipped
> be similar to the vcl.apache.org site for consistency?
>
> I like how the management links are much less prominent. I like to
> see the overall organization of things be reworked for the next
> release -- with things centered around a single page to manage your
> reservations including the combination of the New Reservations and
> Current Reservations pages. Administrative/management functions
> should be hidden most of the time and much less prominent.
>
> There are some topics related to this which would be more appropriate
> for the dev list but regarding jQuery, how do you think it compares to
> Dojo with respect to VCL? Any pros/cons you can think of?
>
> Thanks,
> Andy
>
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Aaron Coburn <ac...@amherst.edu> wrote:
> > Hi, Folks,
> >
> > In case any one is interested, I have been doing a bit of work on a custom
> > VCL theme for our installation.
> > The theme is pretty minimalistic, but it completely changes how the menu
> > is
> > organized -- and bears very little resemblance to the default theme. It
> > also makes heavy use of the twitter-bootstrap framework (for CSS) and
> > jQuery (for some custom javascript). As far as I know, this doesn't
> > require any code changes to the VCL (in our instance, I added a few lines
> > of code to .ht-inc/authentication.php in order to have a custom
> > "selectAuth" page). Also, in our instance, I modified the 'connectmethod'
> > text in the database for ssh and RDP, but those templates are included
> > with this code.
> >
> > I made a screen shot available, in case you are interested [1].
> >
> > And all of the code is available on GitHub [2].
> >
> > -Aaron
> >
> >
> > [1] https://vcl.fivecolleges.edu/images/vcl-theme.png
> > [2] https://github.com/acoburn/vcl-theme-fivecolleges
> >
> >
> > --
> > Aaron Coburn
> > Academic Technology Services, Amherst College
> > acoburn@amherst.edu
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Josh Thompson
VCL Developer
North Carolina State University
my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu
All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which
are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public
Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties.
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