[Engine-devel] Introducing limited branding support.

[Sahina Bose]

On 06/11/2013 10:09 PM, Alexander Wels wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> We recently merged at a patch (http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/13181/) that allows
> for limited branding support of oVirt user portal and web admin. We also moved
> the styles needed to support this branding out of the application and into its
> own module. The styles can now be found in ovirt-
> engine/packaging/branding/ovirt.brand.
>
> In this directory you will find the following files:
> - branding.properties. This file controls the branding theme.
> - ovirt_messages.properties. A standard java resource bundle properties file
> containing the messages that can be changed.
> - A bunch of .css files that contain the classes that can be altered.
>
> I have created a wiki page with some information and pictures of what parts of
> the interface can be changed at this point in time. It is located here:
> http://www.ovirt.org/Feature/Branding
>
> There is also more information in README.branding that got introduced with
> this patch.
>
> Alexander
>
> ps.
> If your user interface looks messed up (missing borders and things of that
> nature) the engine cannot find the default branding. This means you are not
> using the make commands recently introduced. We highly recommend you use this
> to have a complete environment. If you are unwilling or unable to use that you
> can make a symlink in /etc/ovirt-engine/branding/00-ovirt.brand to ovirt-
> engine/packaging/branding/ovirt.brand
If creating a symlink, make sure it matches the ENGINE_ETC property 
that's loaded.
So, for symlink /etc/ovirt-engine/branding/00-ovirt.brand , the 
ENGINE_ETC should be pointing to /etc/ovirt-engine.

I ran into issues, so thought I would share.

thanks
sahina

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