Everyone did a great job on our new admin theme for Drupal 7, however there are few notable failures and outstanding issues we need to address.
General cleanup of Seven's code and UX issues.
Brainstorming large changes
UX
#763720: Visiblity of primary & secondary navigation - we need to fix this, its a huge pita.
#846182: Seven theme form buttons have no hover state - need to revisit this and see what we can do here.
#763720: Visiblity of primary & secondary navigation - regarding the visibility of the tabs - lets take this seriously and revisit
#538788: Implement pagers as designed
Code
#723392: Tame seven's reset.css
Mobile
#1137920: Fix toolbar on small screen sizes and redesign toolbar for desktop
#1751150: Improve usability of forms on touch screen and small screen devices
#1800584: Allow the toolbar tray to be dismissed with a swipe event
#1277352: Responsive vertical tabs
#1488962: Increase touch target size of admin menu lists
#1812730: Seven's tabs/secondary nav isn't mobile friendly
Full list of Seven issues for Drupal 8: http://drupal.org/project/issues/search/drupal?status%5B%5D=Open&version...
Comments
Comment #1
Jeff Burnz commentedThese things I am putting on the hit list and moving to Drupal 8 queue. There are many other bugs we need to address but I would like see these nailed sooner rather than later, in particular RTL issues, we really need to get this sort out, and the UX issues. Much of this can be back-ported when ready to D7 apart from the reset, I'm less keen to backport the reset cleanup, however you might have different ideas.
UX
#763720: Visiblity of primary & secondary navigation - we need to fix this, its a huge pita.
#846182: Seven theme form buttons have no hover state - need to revisit this and see what we can do here.
Two issues regarding the visibility of the tabs - lets take this seriously and revisit:
#1003988: Improve the visibility of tabs
#1034416: Tabs on the right go unnoticed
Important Bugs
#766458: Seven theme lacks rtl styling
Brainstorming
#1297962: Brainstorming for D8 Admin Theme features
Tasks
#723392: Tame seven's reset.css
Comment #2
lewisnymanI'm very interested in taking the Seven admin theme further. Making the theme more responsive/device agnostic.
There is only so far we can take this in core while still keeping the theme lightweight. I would appreciate some advice from people who were more involved in the initial development of Seven.
#1107906: Improve device responsiveness.
Comment #3
Jeff Burnz commentedI think we need to be considering this, I am doing some mobile device testing for Bartik + developing some approaches for responsive/adaptive design for core themes and running into serious issues with Seven as an admin theme in small viewports such as iphone 3 or Nokia 5800 etc, I can use the UI but its not a pleasant experience.
Lets put this on the radar.
Comment #4
yoroy commentedSubscribble
Comment #5
mgiffordI seem to be the only one concerned. But when D8 comes out, I think it will be embarrassing to use an admin theme called Seven. Can we just call it Eight?
But more importantly there are some accessibility issues outstanding.
Comment #6
mgiffordThinking at new issues & new ideas for Seven, I made this issue #1297962: Brainstorming for D8 Admin Theme features
I do think we should have some reflection about how well it's working for us.
I also really want to see SVG files in a repository for Seven. That would really help people visualize new ideas moving forward.
Comment #7
Jeff Burnz commentedMike there are no SVG files for Seven, not unless someone creates them. I have been working on a style guide which is basically documenting basic things like the color palette, fonts and so fourth.
Comment #8
mgiffordI don't think there are any original graphics files for Seven. They'd definitely need to be re-created. I don't know if they are available for Bartik either.
I'm mostly just talking SVG for drupal themes as it seems like it would really give us a lot of flexibility moving forward. Would be a lot of work to set it up, but hopefully someone will take it on at some point..... Sometimes I'm a bit optimistic...
A style guide for Seven & core in general is a big step forward though. Looking forward to it & thanks!
Comment #9
tim.plunkettDemoting this from major, Bojhan agreed.
Comment #10
johnalbinMarking #1645904: Plan and implement style changes to Seven theme for D8 as a dupe.
Comment #11
johnalbinAdded a proper issue summary.
Comment #11.0
johnalbinAdded proper issue summary
Comment #11.1
johnalbinAdd link to full list of D8 issues.
Comment #11.2
Bojhan commentedey
Comment #11.3
Bojhan commentedaa
Comment #11.4
Bojhan commenteda
Comment #11.5
Bojhan commentedUpdated issue summary.
Comment #12
Bojhan commented#1812730: Seven's tabs/secondary nav isn't mobile friendly
Comment #13
tkoleary commentedHas the responsive table work done in 8 been backported to seven theme? Anyone know?
Comment #14
yoroy commentedWe've made a solid start with an updated style and guide for Seven theme: http://groups.drupal.org/node/283223
We need a battle plan for implementing it. What do you think is a good way to go about that and where do we start?
Comment #15
ry5n commentedThe Drupal 7 Style guide is moving into a prototyping phase. Planning for that is happening in the Seven Style Guide Sandbox: http://drupal.org/node/1934534.
If you’re interested in helping with this aspect of the Seven theme, please jump in!
Comment #16
tkoleary commentedClosing as a duplicate of https://drupal.org/node/1986434
Remaining related issues from the summary have been moved into that issue
Comment #16.0
tkoleary commentedUpdated issue summary.
Comment #17
lewisnymanLooks like we hit a lot of targets in this battle plan and more! Let's close this issue now.