With all the discussion about icons, I figured I would open another can-of-worms (so to speak).
I don't know if this has been discussed before (I could not find anything in my searches). As part of getting buyoff from managers we changed the look of hobbit to be a little less "dark". We only make one change to the code (to make highlighting of the line work), all other changes were to the web/www files.
Major Changes:
- Moved menu down to make room for 'company banner'
- changed colors (background/font/etc)
- Removed background (we were annoyed by the "blink" everytime the screen refreshed)
- Added status "line" between company banner & menu, also below the footer.
- Added highlight function: highlights line that mouse is over
- changed icons
- changed footer
I wanted to see what others thought of our effort. Also, I wanted to see if others think it would be worth the time to make hobbit 'skins' (never really cared for that term).
I am willing to help in any effort.
See attached. (sanitized version).
Robert
Hi,
That is great work!!! It looks really good. I for one am in favor of skins.. I love the idea.
Thank you,
Rafal Roginela
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From: Robert Holden [mailto:robertholden at gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 11:58 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Skinned Hobbit (eww) discussion
With all the discussion about icons, I figured I would open another can-of-worms (so to speak).
I don't know if this has been discussed before (I could not find anything in my searches). As part of getting buyoff from managers we changed the look of hobbit to be a little less "dark". We only make one change to the code (to make highlighting of the line work), all other changes were to the web/www files.
Major Changes:
- Moved menu down to make room for 'company banner'
- changed colors (background/font/etc)
- Removed background (we were annoyed by the "blink" everytime the screen refreshed)
- Added status "line" between company banner & menu, also below the footer.
- Added highlight function: highlights line that mouse is over
- changed icons
- changed footer
I wanted to see what others thought of our effort. Also, I wanted to see if others think it would be worth the time to make hobbit 'skins' (never really cared for that term).
I am willing to help in any effort.
See attached. (sanitized version).
Robert
We did some GUI change also. We use yui-ext as the frontend to replace tigra. Will check into sourceforge once the personal/company info is taken out.
T.J. Yang
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:32:02 -0500 From: Rafal.Roginela at AmeriCashLoans.net To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Skinned Hobbit (eww) discussion
Hi,
That is great work!!! It looks really good. I for one am in favor of skins.. I love the idea.
Thank you,
Rafal Roginela
Office (847) 827-9740 x109
Fax (847) 493-8031
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From: Robert Holden [mailto:robertholden at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 11:58 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] Skinned Hobbit (eww) discussion
With all the discussion about icons, I figured I would open another can-of-worms (so to speak).
I don't know if this has been discussed before (I could not find anything in my searches). As part of getting buyoff from managers we changed the look of hobbit to be a little less "dark". We only make one change to the code (to make highlighting of the line work), all other changes were to the web/www files.
Major Changes:
Moved menu down to make room for 'company banner'
changed colors (background/font/etc)
Removed background (we were annoyed by the "blink" everytime the screen refreshed)
Added status "line" between company banner & menu, also below the footer.
Added highlight function: highlights line that mouse is over
changed icons
changed footer
I wanted to see what others thought of our effort. Also, I wanted to see if others think it would be worth the time to make hobbit 'skins' (never really cared for that term).
I am willing to help in any effort.
See attached. (sanitized version).
Robert
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That is GREAT! Would you be able to share with me how you stuck the company logo up top?
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Robert Holden <robertholden at gmail.com>wrote:
With all the discussion about icons, I figured I would open another can-of-worms (so to speak).
I don't know if this has been discussed before (I could not find anything in my searches). As part of getting buyoff from managers we changed the look of hobbit to be a little less "dark". We only make one change to the code (to make highlighting of the line work), all other changes were to the web/www files.
Major Changes:
- Moved menu down to make room for 'company banner'
- changed colors (background/font/etc)
- Removed background (we were annoyed by the "blink" everytime the screen refreshed)
- Added status "line" between company banner & menu, also below the footer.
- Added highlight function: highlights line that mouse is over
- changed icons
- changed footer
I wanted to see what others thought of our effort. Also, I wanted to see if others think it would be worth the time to make hobbit 'skins' (never really cared for that term).
I am willing to help in any effort.
See attached. (sanitized version).
Robert
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On Monday 11 August 2008 12:57:38 Robert Holden wrote:
With all the discussion about icons, I figured I would open another can-of-worms (so to speak).
I don't know if this has been discussed before (I could not find anything in my searches). As part of getting buyoff from managers we changed the look of hobbit to be a little less "dark". We only make one change to the code (to make highlighting of the line work), all other changes were to the web/www files.
Major Changes:
- Moved menu down to make room for 'company banner'
- changed colors (background/font/etc)
- Removed background (we were annoyed by the "blink" everytime the screen refreshed)
- Added status "line" between company banner & menu, also below the footer. - Added highlight function: highlights line that mouse is over
- changed icons
- changed footer
I wanted to see what others thought of our effort. Also, I wanted to see if others think it would be worth the time to make hobbit 'skins' (never really cared for that term).
I am willing to help in any effort.
that is very impressive and looks very clean. as to skinning, henrik had mentioned in a past email thread that bbgen, the piece of hobbit that generated html, is not the most updated piece of hobbit. that people were most welcomed to create their own web 'frontend' to hobbit. i believe that thread then moved into the configuration files of hobbit, since bb-hosts defines both hosts to be monitored and the display layout. talk of how to reorganize hobbit configuration files ensued and the topic fizzeled out. i think henrik mentioned that he was considering a change in bb-hosts or how hobbit is configured, and if a 3rd party person was to write a alternative web interface, the configs would really need to be nailed down first.
as to your skin the only piece i would really miss is the background page color. seems yours is always white. maybe change the top blue swirly image to different colors.. dun know.
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This is very cool. If possible share your modifications on the Shire.
Robert Holden wrote:
With all the discussion about icons, I figured I would open another can-of-worms (so to speak).
I don't know if this has been discussed before (I could not find anything in my searches). As part of getting buyoff from managers we changed the look of hobbit to be a little less "dark". We only make one change to the code (to make highlighting of the line work), all other changes were to the web/www files.
Major Changes:
- Moved menu down to make room for 'company banner'
- changed colors (background/font/etc)
- Removed background (we were annoyed by the "blink" everytime the screen refreshed)
- Added status "line" between company banner & menu, also below the footer.
- Added highlight function: highlights line that mouse is over
- changed icons
- changed footer
I wanted to see what others thought of our effort. Also, I wanted to see if others think it would be worth the time to make hobbit 'skins' (never really cared for that term).
I am willing to help in any effort.
See attached. (sanitized version).
Robert
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There has been some discussion over the years but I don't think anything significant. I've always liked the idea of a "brandable" hobbit. We could then add a new "themes" section to The Shire. :-)
It would be nice if you could just point to a theme folder or maybe just symlink www to a theme. If you could write up a tutorial on what you did that could go up on The Shire...that'd be awesome. It'd be really awesome if we could make it brandable to the sub-page level for those of us who monitor multiple customer's sites.
=G=
From: Robert Holden [mailto:robertholden at gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 12:58 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Skinned Hobbit (eww) discussion
With all the discussion about icons, I figured I would open another can-of-worms (so to speak).
I don't know if this has been discussed before (I could not find anything in my searches). As part of getting buyoff from managers we changed the look of hobbit to be a little less "dark". We only make one change to the code (to make highlighting of the line work), all other changes were to the web/www files.
Major Changes:
- Moved menu down to make room for 'company banner'
- changed colors (background/font/etc)
- Removed background (we were annoyed by the "blink" everytime the screen refreshed)
- Added status "line" between company banner & menu, also below the footer.
- Added highlight function: highlights line that mouse is over
- changed icons
- changed footer
I wanted to see what others thought of our effort. Also, I wanted to see if others think it would be worth the time to make hobbit 'skins' (never really cared for that term).
I am willing to help in any effort.
See attached. (sanitized version).
Robert
I like the term "themes" more than skins. I will use that from now on. :-)
I will try to get together 'diffs' list or something to show what changes I have made. My biggest weakness in these changes is with css. I feel this is the best way to maintain consistency on all pages.
I have tested my theme on different types of pages:
- Main (ok)
- Non-Green ("X events received in the past Y minutes" box has 'dark' colors still)
- Critial Systems (ok)
- Sub-pages (ok)
- Reports: --- Eventlog (ok) --- Availability (ok) --- Snapshot (ok) --- Config (ok, but page is hard to read [busy]) --- Metrics (ok) --- Ghost clients (menu not working, not sure what is so different about this report)
- All Admin Menu functions (ok)
- All Help menus (no header / menu / footer, bug in hobbit?)
The most complicated part of the changes I have done is the menu move. Took quite a bit of trial-and-error to get that part to work.
Robert
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Galen Johnson <Galen.Johnson at sas.com>wrote:
There has been some discussion over the years but I don't think anything significant. I've always liked the idea of a "brandable" hobbit. We could then add a new "themes" section to The Shire. :-)
It would be nice if you could just point to a theme folder or maybe just symlink www to a theme. If you could write up a tutorial on what you did that could go up on The Shire…that'd be awesome. It'd be really awesome if we could make it brandable to the sub-page level for those of us who monitor multiple customer's sites.
=G=
*From:* Robert Holden [mailto:robertholden at gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, August 11, 2008 12:58 PM *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk *Subject:* [hobbit] Skinned Hobbit (eww) discussion
With all the discussion about icons, I figured I would open another can-of-worms (so to speak).
I don't know if this has been discussed before (I could not find anything in my searches). As part of getting buyoff from managers we changed the look of hobbit to be a little less "dark". We only make one change to the code (to make highlighting of the line work), all other changes were to the web/www files.
Major Changes:
- Moved menu down to make room for 'company banner'
- changed colors (background/font/etc)
- Removed background (we were annoyed by the "blink" everytime the screen refreshed)
- Added status "line" between company banner & menu, also below the footer.
- Added highlight function: highlights line that mouse is over
- changed icons
- changed footer
I wanted to see what others thought of our effort. Also, I wanted to see if others think it would be worth the time to make hobbit 'skins' (never really cared for that term).
I am willing to help in any effort.
See attached. (sanitized version).
Robert
Hi Robert
You are much like a bikini with this. What you reveal is suggestive, but what you conceal is vital. (With apologies to Aaron Levenstein)
You have shown us what can be achieved, but kept hidden the secret of how to achieve it. I am sure I speak for many on the list, when I ask, please let us know the changes you have made to achieve this wonderful look.
Thanks Vernon
From: Robert Holden [mailto:robertholden at gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 12 August 2008 12:58 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Skinned Hobbit (eww) discussion
With all the discussion about icons, I figured I would open another can-of-worms (so to speak).
I don't know if this has been discussed before (I could not find anything in my searches). As part of getting buyoff from managers we changed the look of hobbit to be a little less "dark". We only make one change to the code (to make highlighting of the line work), all other changes were to the web/www files.
Major Changes:
- Moved menu down to make room for 'company banner'
- changed colors (background/font/etc)
- Removed background (we were annoyed by the "blink" everytime the screen refreshed)
- Added status "line" between company banner & menu, also below the footer.
- Added highlight function: highlights line that mouse is over
- changed icons
- changed footer
I wanted to see what others thought of our effort. Also, I wanted to see if others think it would be worth the time to make hobbit 'skins' (never really cared for that term).
I am willing to help in any effort.
See attached. (sanitized version).
Robert
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lol. That was not my intention. I just wanted to see if people thought it was worth the effort to put together my changes. When I sent the email I had not bundled thing together yet.
I just finished creating a tar-ball. You can download it from the link below: http://www.uunc.net/hobbitmon/blue-theme.tar.gz (Blue Theme hobbit)
There is a readme file that explains how to install it. Please let me know any suggestions / comments, etc
I will be sending a seperate email for a patch to hobbit. This will allow the 'selection' (highlight) of lines when you mouse over them.
Enjoy!
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 10:07 PM, Everett, Vernon < Vernon.Everett at woodside.com.au> wrote:
Hi Robert
You are much like a bikini with this. What you reveal is suggestive, but what you conceal is vital. (With apologies to Aaron Levenstein)
You have shown us what can be achieved, but kept hidden the secret of how to achieve it. I am sure I speak for many on the list, when I ask, please let us know the changes you have made to achieve this wonderful look.
Thanks Vernon
*From:* Robert Holden [mailto:robertholden at gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, 12 August 2008 12:58 AM *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk *Subject:* [hobbit] Skinned Hobbit (eww) discussion
With all the discussion about icons, I figured I would open another can-of-worms (so to speak).
I don't know if this has been discussed before (I could not find anything in my searches). As part of getting buyoff from managers we changed the look of hobbit to be a little less "dark". We only make one change to the code (to make highlighting of the line work), all other changes were to the web/www files.
Major Changes:
- Moved menu down to make room for 'company banner'
- changed colors (background/font/etc)
- Removed background (we were annoyed by the "blink" everytime the screen refreshed)
- Added status "line" between company banner & menu, also below the footer.
- Added highlight function: highlights line that mouse is over
- changed icons
- changed footer
I wanted to see what others thought of our effort. Also, I wanted to see if others think it would be worth the time to make hobbit 'skins' (never really cared for that term).
I am willing to help in any effort.
See attached. (sanitized version).
Robert
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participants (8)
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Galen.Johnson＠sas.com
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josh＠imaginenetworksllc.com
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Rafal.Roginela＠AmeriCashLoans.net
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robertholden＠gmail.com
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rsmrcina＠wi.rr.com
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s_aiello＠comcast.net
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tj_yang＠hotmail.com
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Vernon.Everett＠woodside.com.au