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FS#937 - New fancy layout for 1.0

Attached to Project: Flyspray - The bug killer!
Opened by Florian Schmitz (Floele) - Monday, 29 May 2006, 22:26 GMT+2
Last edited by Florian Schmitz (Floele) - Saturday, 21 July 2007, 14:16 GMT+2
Task Type TODO
Category User Interface
Status Assigned
Assigned To Alex Cartwright (AlexC_)
Operating System All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.9.9-devel
Due in Version 1.0.0
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

For version 1.0 we need a nice new layout for Flyspray.

Some ideas so far:

  • The theme should be bright, clean, modern and colourful.
  • Comments could be displayed like messages on Google groups (complies to the mentioned requirements), see attachments
  • The menu needs to be changed. It probably has to be vertical in future, but in any case (the only point that matters) it should be possible to add more menu items without requiring a higher screen resolution (width)
  • the new theme should use unstyled input elements
  • the layout of all forms should be unified. I like the layout of phpbb for example (see attachment)

Layout bugs/problems that should be fixed:

Currently we don’t have anyone who is able to do this (I would like to, but I am not very good at it), so if anyone is skilled at making things look good (without creating an image-heavy layout like some at css Zen Garden) he can let us know.

More ideas are welcome and will be added to the description.

   flyspray_comment_layout.png (75.4 KiB)
   flyspray_task_bar.png (21.9 KiB)
   flyspray-forms.png (21.1 KiB)
   comments.png (28.5 KiB)
Comment by rehan Khan (rasker) - Wednesday, 27 September 2006, 14:38 GMT+2

This is an excellent idea. I am not sure if you are aware but flyspray is an addon for joomla CMS which we are considering using for a telephony project primarilly because it is the only bugtracker we can integrate in our site. As far as I can tell flyspray is the only bugtracker which plugs into a CMS!!!

I would like to ask you to consider testing the new layout in a fixed width and screen proportional width joomla front end. At the moment flyspray looks very crowded in a fixed width website.

Perhaps you could contact the author of the flyspray addon and see if he can do some of the design. (unfortunately I don’t/can’t/won’t code very well)

A killer app for open source development? integration into Joomla probably also means that you could integrate into Mambo and possibly others.

I guess that you also may be able to get someone from the joomla community to design the frontend as there are many people in the community who do css designs. You could sell the idea as a demonstration of thier design skills.

Thanks for hearing me out!
Rehan

Comment by Filip Oscadal (peep) - Friday, 16 February 2007, 22:33 GMT+2

The attachments are missing.

Comment by Florian Schmitz (Floele) - Monday, 26 February 2007, 18:30 GMT+2

Attachments fixed.

Comment by Alex Cartwright (AlexC_) - Tuesday, 03 April 2007, 19:09 GMT+2

Hey,

After talking with Floele in #flyspray it seems I will hopefully be creating the fresh new look for Flyspray, it will be web2 style which will bring a bright, easy to use interface that will bring Flyspray up in the UI department. I’ll add attachments to this as I go along to get feedback.

Comment by Thomas (Thomas) - Friday, 15 June 2007, 22:24 GMT+2

An early preview for you

   flyspray.jpg (247.6 KiB)
Comment by christopher (bad-dj) - Tuesday, 19 June 2007, 13:33 GMT+2

now that looks very good i love it Thomas :)

Comment by Develar (Develar) - Monday, 08 October 2007, 16:32 GMT+2

What you think about Flex (http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/) I can do it.

Comment by Alexander Shabuniewicz (beholder) - Sunday, 14 October 2007, 17:10 GMT+2

I want to make my own theme for Flyspray. Maybe I can help you with current task, but I want to know - do you want to remake only theme part, which located in 'themes' folder, or you will give freedom to change templates in 'templates' folder?

Comment by Kevin Landers (scubes13) - Friday, 07 December 2007, 16:48 GMT+2

Is Alex and/or Thomas (or anyone else for that matter) still working on this? I read in the forum ( http://forum.flyspray.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1947 ) that version 1.0 was suspended for lack of a designer.

Comment by Florian Schmitz (Floele) - Friday, 07 December 2007, 19:14 GMT+2

Apparently no one is working on it.

Comment by Thomas (Thomas) - Friday, 07 December 2007, 19:27 GMT+2

I am working on it, just been having issues accessing the SVN lately... is there any way you are going to provide me with "write" rights?

Comment by Florian Schmitz (Floele) - Friday, 07 December 2007, 19:32 GMT+2

Erm, before I see some results, I do not grant anyone any permissions ;)
What kind of "issues" do you have?

Comment by Thomas (Thomas) - Sunday, 09 December 2007, 02:30 GMT+2

There ya go :)

   wip.jpg (592.9 KiB)
Comment by Max (ElectroFox) - Thursday, 03 January 2008, 22:03 GMT+2

Keep in mind, though, not to get too carried away. One of the reasons I like Flyspray, is that it's UI is fairly un-cluttered and more easily usable than many other applications out there.

Comment by NaturalPoint (npuser) - Sunday, 17 February 2008, 12:22 GMT+2

Hello,

Since it looks like this task has been idle for a while, here are some mock-ups to hopefully add momentum. Most of the layout is practical, a couple things like the tabs, rounded corners of the content area and moving the user login details would be more work. The aim was to keep the basic structure while adding some polish.

If there is interest in pursing this style then mock-ups of the the remaining pages can done.

ps. We have been using flyspray internally for a couple years and appreciate it quite a bit.

   fs_blue_theme_01.png (49.9 KiB)
   fs_orange_theme_01.png (48.2 KiB)
   fs_grey_theme_01.png (41.3 KiB)
Comment by David Ballantyne (Modao) - Saturday, 01 March 2008, 20:29 GMT+2

While a default theme for FS is obviously critical; From a Project Perspective, themes are very much always related to the desires of the web-site owner and are nearly always linked to the look and feel of either:

a) The Parent Website or;
b) The Product that they represent

Consequently;

Surely the logical solution is to provide a "Stock" theme, then to allow the FS Admin to customise that theme through a User Interface. (Obviously theme graphics would have to be manually overridden accordingly).

Kindest Regards

David Ballantyne
(Modao)

Comment by julienuytterhaegen (ikou) - Tuesday, 20 May 2008, 17:01 GMT+2

I worked a model and publish a "case study" demo base on the "overview Flyspray" page. This is a design work and not a new "look and feel" graphic template but perhaps it could inspire or attract Flypray developers : http://www.ikou.info/rubrique5.html

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