my admin theme

[adam spence]

Hi guys,

I was wondering what you thought of my proposal to contribute my bootstrap admin theme?

It doesn't make sense to not allow Django admin to be pretty and extendable out of the box does it? I do understand however that the admin is intended for a developer audience. I am always rapidly prototyping systems for clients and the admin always ends up being used by non-technical colleagues, which in turn means I (being more of a UI dev) get loads of complaints over how hard it is to use once you flesh it out. The widgets could do with being easier to re-skin with custom templates IMO. 

I'd be honoured if you'd let me get this into Django itself. Please let me know if you would consider this, otherwise I can just make a module. I'm going to rebuild my current django-admintools-bootstrap module and remove many of the dependencies. https://github.com/spenoir/django-admintools-bootstrap#todo

BTW, I've had quite a few people star it so perhaps the community want it?

all the best,

adam

[Curtis Maloney]

Was just looking at your site... and it looks slick (love admin-tools Menus), but some of the deps worry me.  BeautifulSoup?

ADMINTOOLS_BOOTSTRAP_SITE_LINK = '/'

Why is this special?  Why doesn't it use staticfiles like everything else?

IMHO the problems with admin go much deeper than the markup/styling... but I've not had time yet to dig in properly.

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C

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[Florian Apolloner]

Hi,

On Monday, March 3, 2014 11:35:31 PM UTC+1, adam spence wrote:

I was wondering what you thought of my proposal to contribute my bootstrap admin theme?

If you are refering to https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/0fD9zGtOhMg/vAdAOvxikFAJ -- you already got the answer of one core dev, that bootstrap is most likely not going to fly. Given that there are no other responses from core devs, you can assume that at least some of us feel the same way. Personally I find your grey-in-grey theme visually less appealing than the current admin.
 

It doesn't make sense to not allow Django admin to be pretty and extendable out of the box does it?

My personal experience is that it's way easier to extend zurb foundation than bootstrap, bootstrap is already very opinionated; so if we'd use a CSS framework bootstrap would at least get -0 from me if not even -1.
 

BTW, I've had quite a few people star it so perhaps the community want it?

Please don't get me wrong, but github starring is used somewhat inflationary and 50 stars don't exactly represent the community.

Regards,
Florian