Re: [simple-groupware] User Interface

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Thomas Bley

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May 10, 2013, 8:25:11 AM5/10/13
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Hello,

if your clients have problems with the UI, you can write a better user
manual or offer training courses.

bye
Thomas

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Barry Smith <barry....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Awesome Groupware...
>
> Any plans for a better UI? The only thing thing that it lacks is a better
> design layout because the themes don't help improve the design.
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> I cannot use it for my production site because my clients and agents would
> not know how to use it.
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> Is there anyone out there that has changed the design around?
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Thomas Bley

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May 10, 2013, 10:10:33 AM5/10/13
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Hello,

the "pretty cool" UI from extJS takes 15s to load, changing colors in
a 300 KB CSS is a nightmare.
Loading or adapting the 1.23 MB JavaScript code is nothing users or
developers want to have.

bye
Thomas

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Barry Smith <barry....@gmail.com> wrote:
> jejeje..so i guess that means no plans for a better UI.
>
> The Ext JS 4.2.0 has some pretty cool UI elements.
>
> Portal
> http://docs.sencha.com/extjs/4.2.0/#!/example/portal/portal.html
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> Sandbox
> http://docs.sencha.com/extjs/4.2.0/#!/example/sandbox/sandbox.html

Thomas Bley

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May 12, 2013, 5:23:15 PM5/12/13
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if you're a good programmer it will be no problem for you.

bye
Thomas

On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Barry Smith <barry....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Any tips on how to modify the UI with Smarty PHP?

Barry Smith

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Sep 16, 2013, 3:35:50 PM9/16/13
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It is hard to find someone that is willing to take on the challenge due to the complexity of the system...

Is there anyone else out there that's using a different design interface?

Faruq Hasan

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Sep 16, 2013, 11:37:27 PM9/16/13
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try the themes at the top, i like the tree icons theme and simple water.. take it from there

Faruq Hasan

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Oct 17, 2013, 1:27:55 AM10/17/13
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Dear All,

Am attaching herewith a CSS file that I paid someone to make for us. 

I will only be posting this for a month on here then deleting this thread so that people that use this forum regularly may benefit from it.

I release these changes under the same GPL that simplegroupware is under and have no problems with it being included in future SGS releases without my contrib referenced.


I just wanted the page to look a bit more like 2013 and not so much 2003.

Thanks Barry for the push,

Attached are some screenshots. Just replace (after backing up the core.css) the core.css in sgs/bin/templates with the attached core.css . that's it.
Checked under 0.745, should work on most 0.7xx versions.

Happy hunting,
Enjoy!

Faruq
css-old tasks display.png
css-old tasks new.png
css-old contacts display.png
css-old calendar gantt display.png
css-new calendar gantt display.png
css-new calendar display.png
css-new contacts display.png
css-new tasks new.png
core.css

Barry Smith

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Oct 18, 2013, 12:27:11 AM10/18/13
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Looking much better...Thanks for sharing. 

Paul Zarucki

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Oct 18, 2013, 5:02:54 AM10/18/13
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Hi,

A nice example of how the user interface can be altered by changing the css. Many thanks for sharing this.

Regards,
Paul
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MassimoA

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Oct 20, 2013, 2:07:25 PM10/20/13
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Hello Faruq,
i have downloaded the new core css file: very beautiful!

Thanks!!

Massimo

Massimo Arnaudo

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Oct 24, 2013, 8:19:59 AM10/24/13
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Hi Faruq,
testing the new CSS file I found on my smartphone is not very readable, as it is well suited to the size of the small screen.

for information only.

Massimo


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Faruq Hasan

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Oct 24, 2013, 8:22:23 AM10/24/13
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I noticed that it looks very different on the mobile phones as well, looks okay on tablets. I am looking for the bit of code that controls the width for ismobile (or some method like that)

Regards,

F.

Charles Mccrea

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Nov 13, 2013, 11:00:03 PM11/13/13
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Thanks very much Faruq for providing this for us.  Very Nice!
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