[sakai-core-team] Quick proposal: we change default colors for Sakai 10.0 release

Gonzalo Silverio gsilver at umich.edu
Wed Apr 30 06:34:10 PDT 2014


Need a few more hours this evening, hope that is ok. A modicum of QA would
be good as well, specially on IE 10.

  -Gonzalo


On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Sam Ottenhoff <ottenhoff at longsight.com>wrote:

> Alright, it sounds like we have pretty broad consensus on the flat theme.
> Gonzalo, was that just a mockup or was that a complete Sakai theme we can
> install?
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 5:15 AM, Jean-Francois Leveque <
> jean-francois.leveque at upmc.fr> wrote:
>
>> Flat gets my +1
>>
>> On 30/04/2014 02:39, Anthony Whyte wrote:
>> > + 1 Flat theme.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Steve Swinsburg
>> > <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com <mailto:steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     I like the flat theme too! Need to keep the sakai blue which it
>> >     does, and makes it different from 2.9.
>> >     Gets my vote!
>> >
>> >     sent from my mobile device
>> >
>> >     On 30/04/2014 6:26 AM, "Aaron Zeckoski" <azeckoski at unicon.net
>> >     <mailto:azeckoski at unicon.net>> wrote:
>> >
>> >         First blush is that I love that flat theme. How hard is it to
>> >         make that the default?
>> >         -AZ
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >         On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Gonzalo Silverio
>> >         <gsilver at umich.edu <mailto:gsilver at umich.edu>> wrote:
>> >
>> >             Or we could go with a flatter theme and a fixed site
>> navigation.
>> >
>> >             Inline image 1
>> >
>> >             Or just go for a pun on the logo:
>> >
>> >             Inline image 1
>> >
>> >
>> >             On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Aaron Zeckoski
>> >             <azeckoski at unicon.net <mailto:azeckoski at unicon.net>> wrote:
>> >
>> >                 Absolutely. I was hoping maybe someone artistic would be
>> >                 inspired but
>> >                 I am on board with the idea (assuming we keep the "Sakai
>> >                 blue" in
>> >                 there somewhere).
>> >                 -AZ
>> >
>> >
>> >                 On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Sam Ottenhoff
>> >                 <ottenhoff at longsight.com
>> >                 <mailto:ottenhoff at longsight.com>> wrote:
>> >                  > I'd be happy if someone with design skills wanted to
>> >                 give a run at this.
>> >                  > But I guess I was proposing that as a group without a
>> >                 ton of designers and
>> >                  > without a lot of time, that we find some easier way
>> >                 to quickly create a
>> >                  > distinct color palette before the release.
>> >                  >
>> >                  >
>> >                  > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Aaron Zeckoski
>> >                 <azeckoski at unicon.net <mailto:azeckoski at unicon.net>>
>> >                  > wrote:
>> >                  >>
>> >                  >> I like including the Sakai blue from the logo but
>> >                 otherwise I am
>> >                  >> totally on board with something to differentiate 10
>> >                 from 9. Maybe a
>> >                  >> new default logo with a 10 in it or a sakaiger?
>> >                  >> -AZ
>> >                  >>
>> >                  >> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Sam Ottenhoff
>> >                 <ottenhoff at longsight.com <mailto:
>> ottenhoff at longsight.com>>
>> >                  >> wrote:
>> >                  >> > Problem: 2.9 and 10.0 look exactly the same.  We
>> >                 should do some tiny
>> >                  >> > color
>> >                  >> > differentiation so that the 10.0 release looks
>> >                 distinct.
>> >                  >> >
>> >                  >> > Proposal: Instead of getting involved in color
>> >                 choices and voting, we
>> >                  >> > just
>> >                  >> > pick the most popular current color palette as
>> >                 voted on by lots of
>> >                  >> > people at
>> >                  >> > the Adobe Kuler service:
>> >                  >> >
>> >                  >> >
>> https://kuler.adobe.com/explore/most-popular/?time=all
>> >                  >> >
>> >                  >> > Here is what the top current palette
>> >                  >> >
>> >                 (
>> https://kuler.adobe.com/Clean-and-simple-color-theme-3719589/)
>> >                 looks
>> >                  >> > like
>> >                  >> > in my local Sakai:
>> >                  >> >
>> >                  >> > http://snag.gy/ZK20U.jpg
>> >                  >> >
>> >                  >> > Thoughts?
>> >                  >> >
>> >                  >> > --Sam
>> >                  >> >
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>> >                  >>
>> >                  >> --
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>> >                  >
>> >                  >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>> >             --
>> >             - Gonzalo
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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