The new manager - looking for best practice solutions

Quote from: MadeMyDay at Dec 03, 2008, 04:32 AM

I tried to get SVN working the whole night till 5 am. Couldnt get it working, always blank page after install :-( I will digg deeper in the forums and give you feedback asap.

http://svn.modxcms.com/docs/display/revolution/Development+and+Testing+Notes

Thx Shauwn, got it working now. Looking forward to work on the manager.

Quote from: MadeMyDay at Dec 03, 2008, 10:28 AM

Thx Shauwn, got it working now. Looking forward to work on the manager.

No prob. Make sure to keep a watch on Fisheye (http://svn.modxcms.com/crucible/browse/modx), as the Revolution branch is updated pretty frequently (4-5 times daily on average, sometimes more).

Just took update on the svn and got blown off my chair. I mean this is nice. Dark themes are hard to do right. But this has that something.

At first I looked at it as there was really something wrong. A quick look at the FishEye and rebuild and upgrade later everything seems to be right.

Couple of things that I don’t like. Corners are a bit too round. And the submenus are a little too ... invisible is not the right word for this. They seem to jump from nowhere. And they are a bit detached from the top level.

But keep it going. I’m really looking forward at Revolution release day.

I did the first commit in my life

See branch revolution-design (http://svn.modxcms.com/crucible/changelog/modx/branches?cs=4525) for the changes. A lot of work to do, Ext is quite new for me and behaves like my pregnant wife

See attached screen from my status.

What is done:

- tabs (only the first look, behaviour isnt correct yet)
- Round corner around content
- Meta Menu
- some smaller changes

What not:

- menu behaviour
- icons
- tree should cover the tree icon in the meta menu
- all ext generated styling (tables, inner tabs etc.)
- tree styling
- and a lot more.

If someone could checkout the branch and take a look especially with other browsers than linux/FF3.0 ... thx

I really would advocate loosing the green border around the entire page ... at the top it’s great as it separates the navigation from the content, but in this case I think the fewer visual distractions from the content the better. Great work!

Did you say you were committed to the modx asylum?

Quote from: rthrash at Dec 06, 2008, 09:03 AM

I really would advocate loosing the green border around the entire page ... at the top it’s great as it separates the navigation from the content, but in this case I think the fewer visual distractions from the content the better. Great work!

I agree on the green line and on the kudos 

I really would advocate loosing the green border around the entire page ...

No real technical difference to the manager berore, just a line to sum it up. Visually..

I don’t mind the line in the last screen shot, but I have haven’t had a moment to test the layout personally so I can’t say if it will grow on me or what not.

AMDbuilder

Quote from: MadeMyDay at Dec 06, 2008, 06:06 PM

No real technical difference to the manager berore, just a line to sum it up. Visually..

While I agree that it does surround the content pane, I think the majority consensus prefers the layout without the surrounding line. I personally could see a lot of resolution, javascript, and rendering problems with having the line.