Submit: Changue overall appearence

[Ethan Galstad]

Hi Isaac -

Sorry to disappoint, but I think I'll leave these patches out for the 
time being.  The main reason for doing this is I really think the 
current CGIs need to die, so I don't want to spend much effort on 
modifying them.  I haven't really made many changes to them since 1.x 
and I'm hoping this will help motivate a group of people to start 
developing a new interface (as a separate project, endorsed as the 
"main/official" interface) as soon as 2.0 gets out the door.  I'd 
love for the new interface to be ready for 3.0 (whenever it may 
come), so I can kill the CGIs at that time and concentrate on the 
main daemon.


On 2 Jan 2004 at 2:09, Isaac Uribe wrote:

> Hello everybody, first of all, I'd like to wish you a
> great year 2004, and also thank you for the great work
> you've done with this software.
> 
> I live in the beatiful city of Querétaro, México; and
> I attend to the Technological Instute trying to get a
> degree on Computer Sciences!!
> 
> I work overnight/holydays shifts on a Manufacturing
> Plant as a Technical Support Staff, I installed a
> RedHat/Fedora server with the common stuff:
> Apache/PHP/Perl/MySQL for an
> Intranet/Knowledge-Database based on MOS
> (http://www.mamboserver.com/) and we have been using
> Nagios for monitoring for about 4 months.
> 
> Nagios worked out-of-the-box for me, the only complain
> I had was the look & feel of his web interface, I
> think it was too spartan... and the left frame was
> taking space I needed for the
> "user-suplied-coords-status-map-view" So I started
> tweeking to make it look as close to the website as
> possible.
> 
> I made a lot of changues on the HTML layout of the
> CGI's, but I'm getting to the point where an update to
> next version will be a really time-consuming work.
> So I thought, that I might contribute a little bit,
> I've read about the plans to move everything to a
> PHP-based interface, which I know will make it easier,
> maybe even to implement a template-based system. I'm
> far from a Web-Designer, but right now, I'd just like
> to move the "table height=100% widht=80% font.. <b>"
> out of the CGI's and into the stylesheets.
> 
> So, I just started again (on a test server of course)
> with just the main html page (index.html), and the
> CCS/JS stuff, which is what I'd like you to have a
> look on:
> 
> Compared aginst nagios-cvs.tar:
>  configure diff of configure
>  configure.in diff of configure.in
>  html_index.html.in diff of html/index.html.in
>  html_Makefile.in diff of html/Makefile.in
> 
> Not included in nagios-cvs.tar:
>  html_images_menu -> html/images/menu
>  html_stylesheets_menu -> html/stylesheets/menu
>  html_stylesheets_style.css ->
> html/stylesheets/style.css
> 
> Deleted from nagios-cvs.tar:
>  html/side.html.in
>  html/main.html.in
> 
> All of these files basically just replace the framed
> start page with a top included menu one, menu wich was
> taken from MOS interface. The thing I like here is
> that you can define the menu items on the separate
> file html/stylesheets/menu/items.js, so when I
> included it on the CGI's, it wasn't necessary to
> compile them when modifying the menu items.
> 
> And one last thing: Why is it that you have different
> CSS names for the same thing?, I mean, like
> checksENABLED = eventhandlersENABLED = statusOK =
> hostUP , etc. = green, maybe I'm missing something,
> but I might think that having just an OK-Enabled-UP =
> green, would be enough, making it easier to do an
> overall changue, and still having the chance to do a
> changue on just one particular stylesheet.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Isaac Uribe
> 
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Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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