[BlueOnyx:25613] Re: BlueOnyx 5211R development - progress report

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Ernie,

> A sugguestion when you are working on the GUI.
> There is a bit of wasted space in the current GUI layout compared to the old Cobalt
> GUI.
> 
> In 5210R there is Lots of white space padding, so you get less lines of
> meaningfull iformation on a screen. eg. whem you look at the Virtual Site
> list on a 1080p sceen, in 5210R I can see 7 sites in the window, on the old 5107R
> I couls see 25 sites listed, which is a huge difference, it's white padding in the
> tables. It obviously effects all the tables, not just the Virtual Site list.


The thing is: I'm a programmer, not a pixel pusher. I can mess a bit 
with HTML and CSS make adjustments, but every time I tried to come up 
with something new or better style wise? The results didn't please me 
enough to implement them.

Although the current theme ("Adminica" - created by Oisin Lavery) does 
show it's age: I can't stress how lucky we were to have gotten such a 
great deal for the permission to use it.

I have been chasing for a newer and more modern theme for ages and they 
*all* fall short. Usually in multiple categories. Like they don't have 
all (or even most of) the UI elements we need, lack a mobile device 
variant of the theme or if they are almost complete, they look way too 
arcadish or to too bland.

There was a really nice one I found and planned on using, but once I got 
around to look at the innards I realized that it relied so very heavily 
on "React" that it was unusable for us. :-/

But I'm open to suggestions and ideas. Or if you have some small HMTL or 
CSS optimizations for the current GUI? Send them over and I'll happily 
take a look and might build them in.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber