Time Nick Message 12:39 hdl owen: kados hi 12:59 hdl owen : Do you know where joshua is ? 13:04 CGI960 hi anyone here 13:04 CGI960 i have installed koha and trying to do an admin user 13:04 CGI960 with a blank database 13:06 toins CGI960: default admin user is the login/pass for mysql 13:07 toins s/for/from/ 13:09 CGI960 i am not trying to login into mysql 13:09 CGI960 i want to be admin for the koha library system module 13:10 CGI960 so that i can add users and members 13:10 CGI960 anyone to help me 13:12 toins CGI960: the default admin user's login and pass *for koha* are the same as mysl one. 13:14 owen hdl: kados was travelling yesterday, so he may still be recovering 13:15 hdl I can understand. 13:15 hdl I didn't know where he travelled to or from... 13:21 [K] *** join #koha@FreeNode: dbs n=dan@8-34.lib.laurentian.ca 13:22 hdl hi 13:24 darcilicious hello 14:10 [K] *** join #koha@FreeNode: jaron n=jronallo@in-220-116.dhcp-149-166.iupui.edu 14:10 [K] <jaron@FreeNode> hiya 14:11 [K] <jaron@FreeNode> just me or is the regular koha channel having problems? 14:14 hdl just you 14:14 [K] <jaron@FreeNode> thanks hdl 14:14 [K] *** part FreeNode!#koha: jaron n=jronallo@in-220-116.dhcp-149-166.iupui.edu 14:24 jaron ok, installed pidgin and all's well 15:33 [K] *** join #koha@FreeNode: darcilicious i=plinkit@159.121.122.56 16:17 MotleyFool Is this a good place/time to ask Koha questions? 16:27 jaron there're koha folks around the world so you might find someone here at any hour 16:27 jaron what's up? 16:27 jaron I might be able to help 16:28 jaron MotleyFool: and if you don't get a quick answer here you should email the listserv 16:29 MotleyFool Oh, hey. 16:30 MotleyFool Well, I have lots of Koha questions, so I might post a big long newsgroup posting. Here's one, though... 16:30 MotleyFool When a client makes a "Reserve" request for a book, 16:31 MotleyFool 1) Is there a way Koha can stop displaying the status of "Available" for anyone who does a search for that book? 16:31 MotleyFool 2) How does Koha "notify" the librarian? i.e. what tells him/her to go get that book off the shelf and move it to the "Reservation Shelf" ? 16:33 jaron unfortunately I don't have enough experience with those parts of koha to know. 16:34 jaron if it doesn't do #1 you could create a dummy patron and check it out to that account 16:35 MotleyFool Ok. No problem. 16:35 MotleyFool Hey, one other question... 16:35 jaron sure 16:35 MotleyFool The Koha Showcase libraries I see (like NPL, http://search.athenscounty.lib.oh.us/) look beautiful 16:36 MotleyFool But my default installation of Koha doesn't look nearly as nice. Even with the NPL templates. 16:36 MotleyFool Where do all those "beautiful" layouts come from? 16:36 jaron 1st that's the dev_week version not 2.2 so that might be why 16:36 jaron I'm sure they do a lot of modifications of the templates 16:37 jaron and stylesheets 16:37 dewey stylesheets are gone from the OPAC 16:37 jaron stylesheets 16:37 dewey stylesheets are gone from the OPAC 16:37 jaron really, dewey? 16:37 dewey jaron: excuse me? 16:37 jaron dewey's a bot 16:37 jaron don't mind him 16:37 MotleyFool Ah. :-) 16:38 jaron dewey: botsnack 16:38 dewey :) 16:38 MotleyFool I see that they're using something called "KohaZOOM" - is that different than Koha? Prettier? Not free? 16:39 MotleyFool I also see that SMFPL (http://opac.smfpl.org/) looks almost identical to NPL. :-( Wish mine looked that nice. 16:40 jaron it's free but more difficult to set up 16:41 jaron a lot of the features in dev_week are in koha 3 which is under development 16:41 jaron you might try looking at your settings and trying different opac templates 16:42 jaron I'm not sure which are available now 16:43 MotleyFool Hmmm. Well, I can probably handle a difficult setup if need be. Do you know where I can download KohaZOOM then? 16:43 MotleyFool (I tried some different templates - they're not bad, but not quite as good as the "real" libraries have) 16:45 jaron might see here: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=installingzebraplugin226 16:46 jaron the other option that I would take would be to play with the stylesheets to get more what you want 16:46 jaron and then if you have to change the templates 16:46 MotleyFool Thank you. As I search around, I'm getting the idea that dev_week is probably the bleeding edge version of Koha? i.e. maybe not stable, but the latest/greatest version? 16:46 jaron dev_week is a dead end 16:47 jaron that's my understanding 16:47 jaron currently 3 is being developed 16:48 MotleyFool Ok. 16:48 MotleyFool Tricky stuff. :-) 16:49 dbs Hi MotleyFool: I _think_ KohaZOOM is a Liblime-specific product name 16:50 dbs 3.0 is in the process of getting pulled together for a prerelease candidate 16:50 jaron dbs: I think you're correct on that. Right now though the KohaZOOM product is probably dev_week. 16:50 MotleyFool I guess my question kinda boils down to "How do I get as nice a looking OPAC page as the Koha Showcase libraries have?" If the answers is "Spend money!" or "Do lots of custom CSS work", then I guess I may just try to live with 2.2.9's default or npl templates. :-) 16:50 dbs jaron: right -- sort of a Koha 2.4 (by way of the zebra plugin) 16:51 jaron you might ask on the list for other suggestions, but CSS and HTML template changes are all that I can come up with 16:52 dbs MotleyFool: Right now there's a lot of discussion on the list about the 3.0 templates; I suspect that 3.0 will have nicer looking templates, but "Spend money / Do lots of custom work" is always the default answer :) 16:52 MotleyFool But I want everything for free, and I want everyone else to do the work!!1 16:52 MotleyFool :-) 16:54 MotleyFool Ok. Where's the best place to find more help - posting to the mailing list, or to gmane.comp.misc.koha? (or are they the same?) 16:55 jaron I'd subscribe to the mailing list 16:55 jaron gmane is a nice interface for reading back threads though 16:56 MotleyFool M'kay. 16:56 MotleyFool Thanks for all the help. 16:57 jaron sure good luck 16:57 hdl jaron you're right. 16:57 hdl dbs too. 18:16 [K] *** join #koha@FreeNode: darcilicious i=plinkit@159.121.122.56 20:26 chris morning 20:26 jaron good evening 20:27 chris busy day jaron? 20:27 jaron should be ;) 20:29 chris thats what i like to see, wake up to a bunch of cvs commit mails :) 20:31 owen Hi chris 20:32 chris heya owen :) hows things? 20:33 owen Pretty good. Coming up on a big project deadline, so...busy. 20:33 chris kahurangi is loving the little wooden fish toy 20:33 owen Good. :) 20:33 owen I really like seeing the updates on your blog 20:33 chris did you hear im going to be over your way in august? 20:33 owen No, that's great! Whole family? 20:33 chris cool, ill keep doing them, ill try to get a photo of him with his fish 20:34 chris just me im afraid, in athens for a couple of weeks then new york for a bit 20:35 chris laurel and kahu might be heading over in september tho, ... for a family reunion, so separate travel this year hehe, but that way we dont have to kennel the dogs and get a house/cat sitter 20:36 chris next year we will have to be more organised :) 20:36 owen Yeah, I know how that is. Think of it this way: at least you don't have chickens too :) 20:36 chris hehe good point 20:41 hdl hi 20:41 dewey bonjour, hdl 20:41 chris hdl is still awake? 20:41 hdl just passing around 20:44 chris hdl: i just finished a coffee and a pan au chocolat 20:44 chris it wasnt as good as the ones i had in france :) 20:44 hdl :P 20:45 hdl yeah French are the kings for that 20:45 chris sure are 20:45 hdl And My brother wants to specialize in pastries. 20:45 chris ohhh, thats a good brother to have 20:45 hdl Sure! 20:46 hdl time to go to bed. 20:46 hdl See you 20:46 chris good night 20:50 [K] *** part FreeNode!#koha: dbs n=dan@pdpc/supporter/active/denials 22:55 [K] *** join #koha@FreeNode: ahinui n=russel@203-118-134-114.netspace.net.nz 07:43 hdl salut 07:53 toins salut 07:53 dewey hello, toins