GUI Navigation discussion

[Jandra A]

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> Don’t worry about the grey idea for now -- I figured out a way to work
> with the existing dark blue color without having to come up with new shades
> of blue, etc.. I simply applied a 10% white opacity over the background for
> the hover-over background. The light blue text still worked with the
> blue20, so that was fine to keep.
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> I’ve pushed a new commit addressing all the issues we discussed, and with
> those color settings.
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Thanks Kathy, I'd love to see it again in the workgroup today (:




 *From:* Jandra A <jandraara at gmail.com>
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> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 19, 2019 2:58 PM
> *To:* Pine, Kathryn ElaineX <kathryn.elainex.pine at intel.com>
> *Subject:* Re: GUI Navigation discussion
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> Either way – let me know what you think of the concept showing the greys
> that was sent in that earlier email as well.
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> It might be best to keep the color separate and just merge the behavior,
> like the screenshot in my previous email. Is that something we can move
> forward with?
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> Regards,
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> Jandra
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> *From:* Jandra A <jandraara at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 19, 2019 2:15 PM
> *To:* OpenBMC Maillist <openbmc at lists.ozlabs.org>; Pine, Kathryn ElaineX <
> kathryn.elainex.pine at intel.com>
> *Subject:* Re: GUI Navigation discussion
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> Kathy -- Following up on our conversation,
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> >> I think a grey could work as the nav background, not sure about it
> being the content background. But, interestingly, yesterday I was thinking
> about using greys in another way – that if we had a set of greys throughout
> the site, and then used one or two colors as a filter, it might be easy to
> have groundwork for a skin through a method of that sort. Basically the
> base theme is shades of grey, and then two variables may be able to be used
> to establish the color themes.
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> I'm not following the idea of using a set of greys and one or two colors
> as a filter. Would that not be the same amount of work for creating themes
> as if they were full themes?
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> >> I can see what I can do with this idea; and in the meantime if you come
> up with a color palette keeping with the idea of the nav being the dark
> background (so we can continue with this commit without substantial
> changes), let me know.
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> I'm attaching another proposal using the exact same color conventions in
> the build right now, so that we can focus on merging the accordion
> navigation behavior and keep the color discussion separate. This would keep
> the background dark blue (blue 100) with white text and icons (grey 0). The
> selected page would be styled with a grey 20 background and blue 100 text.
> The hover page would be styled with a grey 0 background and blue 100 text.
> And, all children in the navigation are grey 60.
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> >> Regarding the design library, we have been reviewing Carbon and don’t
> feel like it matches with the modern style that we’d like to move forward
> with very well. We do like the idea of a design library, but if we don’t
> agree on which design library, this might not help so much after all…
> About the design library, whether it's Carbon or not, we're going to have
> to align on something otherwise subjective conversations will keep slowing
> all parties down. In a separate email I'll address this more.
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> Regards,
> Jandra
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