[Koha-devel] Seeking comments on Bug 5234 - Remove unused CSS files

[Ian Walls]

yes, unfortunately "how it looks" is a factor in the decision.  The OPAC
gets lots of attention, and there are some gorgeous ones out there, but not
a lot of folks customize the staff client, since just the librarains see it.

I'd love to spend more time on the staff interface, but I'm hardly a CSS
artist.  I'll happily test and provide feedback, and work in depth on small
details like rounded edges with CSS3 or adjusting margins, if anyone else
can provide the initial design.

I'd also like to see a new feature that allows librarians to upload their
own CSS file through the GUI.  Provide a template to download, them them go
to town, and then upload.  Same with XSLT, now that I mention it.


-Ian

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Paul Poulain <paul.poulain at biblibre.com>wrote:

> Le 08/02/2011 22:18, LAURENT Henri-Damien a écrit :
> > Hi
> > blue.css was left quite unmaintained, though it brought along more
> > colors and therefore was warmer.
> > But well would need work.
> My opinion is that the standard "white and black" colors are not fancy
> enough.
> I changed my mind on this subject : I thought fancyness was just
> something for tv ppl that must hide their emptyness behing fancy colors.
> I still think that in fact. But when competing another ILS in a RFP,
> when the librarians have a demo, I have heard some librarians saying
> "your interface is sad, more colors/pictures would be better,..."
> I know *for sure* we already have lost one RFP just because of the look
> of our librarian interface.
> The library project manager was very annoyed by this reason, thinking
> Koha was the best in terms of features, but the librarians were
> convinced by another ILS, and the main reason was ... the colors.
> I agree it's really stupid/silly/whatever you want, but I think we have
> to deal with that : I think Koha 3.4 with a new librarian default color
> style could be advertised as "we changed everything, look how fancy it
> is", and that would work much better than "in Koha 3.4 we now have this
> great feature".
>
> So, the next question is, imo: who could write a nice&fancy color
> stylesheet ? (no-one at BibLibre :( )
>
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