[TYPO3-hci] GUI Toolkit Qooxdoo

[Lasse Norby]

Hi Patrick

Just tried out the demos! GREAT STUFF!
How far along are you in the mockups? Is it possible to get a glimpse?

I definitely think this kind of framework thing would be a huge benefit 
to typo3.. :-)

Cheers!
Lasse


Patrick Broens wrote:
> Hi HCI Folks,
> 
> In the past week I've been thinking about making or using a GUI toolkit 
> for TYPO3. Right now TYPO3 doesn't use a real toolkit for the appearance 
> of the backend which, especially for a framework like TYPO3, in my 
> opinion should use. Right now a lot of testing is done with separate 
> code snippets, which I prefer to see in one toolkit. With AJAX in my 
> mind I went on a quest on the Internet to search for sollutions. Some of 
> you probably know the Prototype Window Class [1], Lasse used for the 
> desktop-like application mentioned in the PDF Jens Hoffmann made, or 
> Dojo [3], I think Kasper is playing with (regarding the drag and drop 
> features of the 'Dashboard'), or other Javascript snippets. A commercial 
> solution, for instance, is Bindows [2].
> 
> Looking for the holy grail, I stumbled upon Qooxdoo [4].

> Their website has some outstanding demo's [6] which shows a lot of the 
> capablilities of Qooxdoo. Especially the tests [7] are interesting 
> because it shows most of the internal functionality. (There are some RPC 
> tests, but they forgot to add the server functionality)
> 
> I've played with it in the past week, and this toolkit surprised me. It 
> is very simple to use, is beautifully written (I'm a programmer), has a 
> lot of features and you can extend it very easily. It has also some nice 
> features to change the appearance of the GUI completely.
> 
> Maybe something to keep in the back of our minds.
> 
> Right now I'm working on some mockups with Qooxdoo to see how we can 
> change the appearance of TYPO3 to be more user friendly. Maybe we can 
> use these mockups to test what the best way is to make the backend more 
> usable for normal backend users.
> 
> Patrick