I like the term "themes" more than skins. I will use that from now on. :-)
I will try to get together 'diffs' list or something to show what changes I
have made. My biggest weakness in these changes is with css. I feel this
is the best way to maintain consistency on all pages.
I have tested my theme on different types of pages:
- Main (ok)
- Non-Green ("X events received in the past Y minutes" box has 'dark'
colors still)
- Critial Systems (ok)
- Sub-pages (ok)
- Reports:
--- Eventlog (ok)
--- Availability (ok)
--- Snapshot (ok)
--- Config (ok, but page is hard to read [busy])
--- Metrics (ok)
--- Ghost clients (menu not working, not sure what is so different about
this report)
- All Admin Menu functions (ok)
- All Help menus (no header / menu / footer, bug in hobbit?)
The most complicated part of the changes I have done is the menu move. Took
quite a bit of trial-and-error to get that part to work.
Robert
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Galen Johnson <user-87f955643e3d@xymon.invalid>wrote:
There has been some discussion over the years but I don't think anything
significant. I've always liked the idea of a "brandable" hobbit. We could
then add a new "themes" section to The Shire. :-)
It would be nice if you could just point to a theme folder or maybe just
symlink www to a theme. If you could write up a tutorial on what you did
that could go up on The Shire…that'd be awesome. It'd be really awesome if
we could make it brandable to the sub-page level for those of us who monitor
multiple customer's sites.
=G=
*From:* Robert Holden [mailto:user-25cd5b2bea13@xymon.invalid]
*Sent:* Monday, August 11, 2008 12:58 PM
*To:* user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
*Subject:* [hobbit] Skinned Hobbit (eww) discussion
With all the discussion about icons, I figured I would open another
can-of-worms (so to speak).
I don't know if this has been discussed before (I could not find anything
in my searches). As part of getting buyoff from managers we changed the
look of hobbit to be a little less "dark". We only make one change to the
code (to make highlighting of the line work), all other changes were to the
web/www files.
Major Changes:
- Moved menu down to make room for 'company banner'
- changed colors (background/font/etc)
- Removed background (we were annoyed by the "blink" everytime the screen
refreshed)
- Added status "line" between company banner & menu, also below the
footer.
- Added highlight function: highlights line that mouse is over
- changed icons
- changed footer
I wanted to see what others thought of our effort. Also, I wanted to see
if others think it would be worth the time to make hobbit 'skins' (never
really cared for that term).
I am willing to help in any effort.
See attached. (sanitized version).
Robert