[Koha-devel] A few things you could do before I release of Koha 3.8

[Mason James]

On 2012-04-20, at 5:54 AM, Paul wrote:

> At 06:26 PM 4/19/2012 +0200, Paul Poulain wrote:
> [snip]
>> * The bug 7979 introduces a new stylesheet and homepage for the staff
>> interface. I've setup the sandbox with this bug. If you want to have a
>> look, head here = http://pro.test1.biblibre.com/ login/password=
>> test/test .
> 
> Combining the search functions into one box is certainly a step forward, but ... very respectfully, it's bloatware. Firebug pagespeed finds a 23% increase in transfer size:
> 
>     | TypeFile         Size         Transfer Size
>     |-------------     --------     -------------
> Old: | 24 resources     548.4kB      146.6kB
> New: | 38 resources     587kB        180.8kB
> 
> The "old" fitted nicely onto one screen without scrolling; for the "new" you have to scroll for all functions except search.  We feel that this is very important (ergonomics, functionality, simplicity, work flow, speed.)
> 
> Adding a new Marc record now requires 2 clicks instead of one.
> 
> Why "buttons and images" instead of the much more compact "a href" type underlined text.  Our cataloguers found it "gimmicky", and two of them felt vaguely insulted in their abilities to use a simple html page presentation.
> 
> We'd have to experiment to see how our "news and links" can be functionally fitted to the left hand side of the screen.
> 
> Question:  can the css, templates etc from 3.6 be retained?  Or do the mods permeate further?
> 
> We're certainly not opposed to progress, and recognize the work that you've put into this, but do not see any advantages to this "P5 - low enhancement" bug.
> 
> Thanks - Paul 


congrats on the GUI changes Gaetan, they look great! :)