[Users] new oVirt look-and-feel -- feature page

Thu Feb 20 14:07:06 UTC 2014

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karli Sjöberg" <Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se>
> To: gshereme at redhat.com
> Cc: users at ovirt.org, arch at ovirt.org
> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 8:17:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [Users] new oVirt look-and-feel -- feature page
> 
> On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 07:22 -0500, Greg Sheremeta wrote:
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Karli Sjöberg" <Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se>
> > > To: gshereme at redhat.com
> > > Cc: users at ovirt.org, arch at ovirt.org
> > > Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 1:43:43 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [Users] new oVirt look-and-feel -- feature page
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 2014-02-18 at 16:19 -0500, Greg Sheremeta wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > Please check out the feature page for the new oVirt look-and-feel,
> > > > PatternFly based:
> > > > http://www.ovirt.org/Features/NewLookAndFeelPatternFlyPhase1.
> > > > 
> > > > Comments are welcome.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Greg
> > > > 
> > > > Greg Sheremeta
> > > > Red Hat, Inc.
> > > > Sr. Software Engineer, RHEV
> > > > Cell: 919-807-1086
> > > > gshereme at redhat.com
> > > > _______________________________________________
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> > > 
> > > Looks really nice! Is the background canvas vectorized? Isn´t it going
> > > to become rather slow loading such a big picture otherwise... And how is
> > > it going to handle scaling of browser windows? How´d it look on smaller
> > > resolutions e.g 960x640?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --
> > > 
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> > > 
> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Karli Sjöberg
> > > Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Box 7079 (Visiting Address
> > > Kronåsvägen 8)
> > > S-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
> > > Phone:  +46-(0)18-67 15 66
> > > karli.sjoberg at slu.se
> > > 
> > 
> > It's not vectorized. It's a PNG, size is 248.0 kB ... which isn't horrible.
> > After the first load, it'll be stored in browser cache.
> > 
> > It's set to scale in such a way that the aspect ratio is maintained. It
> > uses the CSS3 property "background-size" to achieve this. I think it looks
> > pretty perfect at any resolution.
> > 
> > Here's the full CSS for it:
> > 
> > .obrand_loginPageBackground {
> >     background-image: url(images/ovirt_bg.png);
> >     background-size: 100% auto;
> >     background-repeat: repeat-x;
> >     background-color: #1d2226;
> >     position: absolute;
> >     bottom: 0;
> >     left: 0;
> >     right: 0;
> >     top: 0;
> > }
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > Greg
> 
> Yupp, just checking, since it´s not made to tile like a parallax, I was
> just curious if you had some special trick up your sleave.
> 
> And maybe I´m just nit-picking here, but I made a quick test, just to
> demonstrate what I would percieve as a problem of having one big picture
> as background.
> 
> obrand.html:
> <html>
>   <head>
>     <link rel="stylesheet" href="obrand.css" />
>   </head>
>   <body class="obrand_loginPageBackground"></body>
> </html>
> 
> obrand.css:
> .obrand_loginPageBackground {
>     background-image: url(ovirt_bg.png);
>     background-size: 100% auto;
>     background-repeat: repeat-x;
>     background-color: #1d2226;
>     position: absolute;
>     bottom: 0;
>     left: 0;
>     right: 0;
>     top: 0;
> }
> 
> I attached a snapshot of how scaling your browser window in the "wrong"
> way breaks it´s aspect ratio and how that´s just handled by
> "background-color" in a rather...boring way. Of course scaling the
> window _that_ small is ridiculous, it´s just to demonstrate the aspect
> issue that would be for smartphones e.g, on this welcome screen.
> 
> So my concern here is most of all about the aspect ratio issues involved
> with having just one big picture as a background. Most sites I´ve seen
> have either just code, a lot of small pics, parallaxing ones, or one
> insanely big picture, talking Ultra-HD 4k big, just to be absolutely
> sure it´s not going to scale in this unwanted way.
> 
> Am I wrong?
> 
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Med Vänliga Hälsningar
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Karli Sjöberg
> Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Box 7079 (Visiting Address
> Kronåsvägen 8)
> S-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
> Phone:  +46-(0)18-67 15 66
> karli.sjoberg at slu.se
> 
There is a new CSS trick in PatternFly that deals with this. Once I implement that, it should fix the tall-skinny resolution issue. I'll reply back.

Thanks!
Greg