[Owncloud] improving OwnCloud javascript theming/templating

[Frank Karlitschek]

On 16.03.2013, at 11:05, Stefan Nagtegaal <development at standoutdesign.nl> wrote:

> Of what *exactly*would you like me to file an issue?
> - the annoying and mostly overused absolute/fixed positioning of owncloud, which makes theming even harder for the average user?
> - the fact that the generated HTML from the javascript files is not themable?
> - the separation of style vs function between CSS and JS?
> - the problem of having every app implement it's own (inconsistent) version of commonly used regions, for returning things like notifications, controls, content?

Exactly that.

Thank you


> IMO it would be *much* better and a lot cleaner if we would implement Google's Bootstrap for the default styling. It's easy for everybody to work with, gives us a solid and proven base to work on, and implements everything owncloud needs to give it a clean, solid and cross-browser UI.
> 
> 90% of the Javascript owncloud core implements, is available in the default bootstrap package.
> 
> I'm not completely sure what you mean.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> 
> Stefan
> 
> 
> Op 16 mrt. 2013, om 10:36 heeft Frank Karlitschek <frank at owncloud.org> het volgende geschreven:
> 
>> Hi Stefan,
>> 
>> thanks a lot for your offer to help. That's great.
>> First of all I would suggest that you open an issue on github where you describe the problem with the current implementation. The next step would be then to discuss changed to improve this.
>> If we agree on a change then the next step is to implement it in a branch and open a pull request.
>> 
>> But first it would be good to understand what you want to do.
>> 
>> Thanks a lot.
>> 
>> Frank
>> 
>> 
>> On 16.03.2013, at 10:30, Stefan Nagtegaal <development at standoutdesign.nl> wrote:
>> 
>>> I would like to improve owncloud theming and templating, which currently isn't as good as it should/could be.
>>> Now, I would like to know what the proper and most reliable way is, of getting things committed to core?
>>> 
>>> And, as a sidenote I'm not completely sure what belongs to core and what not. Owncloud seems to be distributed with a "3rdparty"-directory, which seems to be 3rd party applications and source code, although I'm not completely sure about this.
>>> The apps-directory hold quite some apps, which some of them are "internal", "3rd Party" or "Recommended".
>>> 
>>> So the question is, to make patches for the proper files and apps, which applications are part of owncloud core, and which are not?
>>> 
>>> And, are there any thoughts on how to make the generated HTML from the javascript files, themable/templatable?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Kind regards,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Stefan Nagtegaal
>>> 
>>> 
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