[Engine-devel] Introducing limited branding support.

[Alon Bar-Lev]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sahina Bose" <sabose at redhat.com>
> To: awels at redhat.com
> Cc: engine-devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 1:59:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Introducing limited branding support.
> 
> 
> 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.

Please migrate to the new supported development environment[1], it installs everything as it should, you should not set these variables manually.

Regards,
Alon Bar-Lev.

[1] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=ovirt-engine.git;a=blob;f=README.developer;hb=HEAD

> 
> thanks
> sahina
> 
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