| Time |
S |
Nick |
Message |
| 13:56 |
|
kados |
owen around? |
| 13:56 |
|
kados |
:-) |
| 13:57 |
|
kados |
so I'm thinking of hacking on the cataloging stuff for a bit |
| 13:58 |
|
owen |
Yeah? What'd you have in mind? |
| 13:58 |
|
kados |
well for starters I thought I'd update .60's z3950 folder to the latest 2.0 (but that's not in cvs now is it) |
| 13:59 |
|
kados |
or are we going to try the 2.2 stuff (are there any bugs?) |
| 14:01 |
|
kados |
asside from the self-checkout stuff I don't think we're running any koha stuff on .60 at the moment |
| 14:02 |
|
kados |
do you have any objections to me grabbing the latest cvs (2.2) and trying to get cataloging working with that (or would you rather stick with 2.0)? |
| 14:04 |
|
owen |
You mean putting 2.2 on .60? I don't have any work on .60, so it doesn't make any difference to me. |
| 14:05 |
|
kados |
ok ... |
| 14:05 |
|
owen |
Regarding the z3950 server...if it's working now on .60, couldn't we simply point the z3950 search on 76 to 60? |
| 14:06 |
|
kados |
are we trying to do a z3950 search of our catalog ... I thought we were trying to search other catalogs |
| 14:06 |
|
kados |
the z-server is just for our catalog |
| 14:07 |
|
owen |
Then what's on 60 that 76 doesn't have? What is it Stephen was asking about yesterday? |
| 14:07 |
|
kados |
I think the goal is to be able to go out to LOC, and other places and retrieve marc records ... edit them ... and insert them into our catalog |
| 14:07 |
|
kados |
there's a big on 76 |
| 14:07 |
|
kados |
s/big/bug/ |
| 14:07 |
|
kados |
that prevents any yaz stuff from working |
| 14:07 |
|
kados |
so that's why I had to move our server to .60 |
| 14:08 |
|
kados |
and that's why we need to do the z3950 searcehs on .60 |
| 14:08 |
|
kados |
but that's prolly the only thing we need to do on .60 |
| 14:16 |
|
emiliano |
Hi everybody |
| 14:16 |
|
owen |
hi emiliano |
| 14:16 |
|
emiliano |
Chris, are you on line? |
| 14:16 |
|
emiliano |
hi owen |
| 14:19 |
|
emiliano |
ok |
| 14:19 |
|
emiliano |
I wish to ask about some commit |
| 14:19 |
|
emiliano |
in OPAC but I will download from CVS to test if it's uploaded |
| 15:01 |
|
owen |
Nice new irc log, chris! |
| 15:02 |
|
emiliano |
oooh where could I find it? |
| 15:02 |
|
owen |
http://koha.org/irc |
| 15:02 |
|
chris |
http://www.koha.org/irc/ should redirect you to it |
| 15:02 |
|
owen |
I miss the calendar interface, though |
| 15:03 |
|
chris |
owen, shall i make it automatically set up saved queries for each day? |
| 15:03 |
|
owen |
I guess that's a yes :) |
| 15:03 |
|
chris |
cool, ill get rach to help me tweak the html/interface too |
| 15:04 |
|
owen |
Yeah, we need some nicer colors! |
| 15:04 |
|
chris |
heh |
| 15:15 |
|
ToyKeeper |
Looks fine to me, but then, I'm looking at it without CSS. |
| 15:15 |
|
chris |
it randomly picks colours |
| 15:16 |
|
chris |
# from the first 3 letters, build some kind of pseudorandom checksum |
| 15:16 |
|
chris |
# which is then transmogrified into an hex colour code, |
| 15:16 |
|
chris |
# with each of r,g, and b being between 80 and ff (ie, at least half bright) |
| 15:20 |
|
ToyKeeper |
You could just assign colors as part of a random gradient instead. At least they'd go together, then. |
| 15:22 |
|
ToyKeeper |
Like, set one color randomly with an average brightness of 30% and another with a brightness of 80%, and assign colors to each person evenly between those two. |
| 15:22 |
|
chris |
yeah could do |
| 15:22 |
|
chris |
ill let the html/css/designy ppl at work look at it |
| 15:23 |
|
chris |
lord knows i should never be allowed to write html :-) |
| 15:25 |
|
ToyKeeper |
BTW, has anyone given any thought to handicapped accessibility in koha? ("section 508" stuff, in the US) |
| 15:25 |
|
ToyKeeper |
Just curious; it's not very hard to do, but it may be a concern of some libraries. |
| 15:26 |
|
owen |
Did you have anything particular in mind? |
| 15:26 |
|
chris |
yeah, we have e-govt guidelines here that are similair to those, with a big section on accessability |
| 15:27 |
|
chris |
i think we could do a compliant theme without to much effort |
| 15:28 |
|
ToyKeeper |
It's more of a design pattern than a theme, but I'd imagine it wouldn't be hard to do with koha. |
| 15:29 |
|
chris |
(theme in koha = set of html::templates) |
| 15:30 |
|
ToyKeeper |
Just looking briefly at the opac, it seems pretty accessible to text-only browsers already. |
| 15:31 |
|
chris |
thats the default theme ? |
| 15:31 |
|
chris |
http://library.katipo.co.nz/cg[…]ha/opac-search.pl <-- vanilla theme |
| 15:32 |
|
chris |
http://www.library.org.nz/cgi-[…]koha/opac-main.pl <--hlt theme |
| 15:32 |
|
chris |
whats NPL's opac owen? |
| 15:32 |
|
owen |
http://search.athenscounty.lib.oh.us |
| 15:32 |
|
chris |
ta |
| 15:35 |
|
ToyKeeper |
Hmm. I see one thing so far I'd change for better accessibility... using css to lay out the main page sections. |
| 15:35 |
|
ToyKeeper |
That would allow the main page content to be right at the top when css is turned off, but still be laid out nicely in standard browsers. |
| 15:36 |
|
chris |
yep |
| 15:36 |
|
ToyKeeper |
(alternately, some people add a "top" link to the top-left of each page, to skip to the content) |
| 15:36 |
|
chris |
http://library.katipo.co.nz/cg[…]ha/opac-search.pl see here it has a change to maori button .. that could be extended to change the theme too, not just the language |
| 15:37 |
|
chris |
it sets a cookie and from then on ur served the pages in that look/language |
| 15:37 |
|
chris |
i thought it might be good to make one with big fonts for old patrons etc ... |
| 15:38 |
|
ToyKeeper |
Or they could use mozilla/opera, and change the "zoom". :) |
| 15:39 |
|
chris |
they could, the hlt opacs run mozilla .. but we dont give them access to the menus etc |
| 15:39 |
|
chris |
yay for XUL |
| 15:40 |
|
chris |
actually you could do a koha mozilla theme (actually they run firefox i think) |
| 15:41 |
|
ToyKeeper |
BTW, the changelanguage.pl for maori identifies its mimetype as application/x-perl instead of text/html. |
| 15:41 |
|
chris |
ta, ill fix that |
| 15:41 |
|
ToyKeeper |
Yeah, the page could do different stylesheets for different font sizes. |
| 15:42 |
|
ToyKeeper |
This demonstrates several good ideas: http://plone.org |
| 15:44 |
|
ToyKeeper |
They handle font size with javascript and css. It does a few other nice things, too. |
| 18:45 |
|
ToyKeeper |
Hmm. I noticed the default front page in koha uses a meta refresh to direct to the correct page. |
| 18:45 |
|
chris |
only if you want it to |
| 18:45 |
|
chris |
you can make that index.html page anything you want |
| 18:45 |
|
ToyKeeper |
Yup. |
| 18:45 |
|
chris |
or just do the redirect in apache |
| 18:46 |
|
ToyKeeper |
The default should probably use a http moved error though, since w3c recommends avoiding meta refresh. |
| 18:46 |
|
chris |
yep, you could file that as bug .. or better commit a fix to cvs :-) |
| 18:47 |
|
chris |
geeez |
| 18:47 |
|
ToyKeeper |
I haven't looked at koha's cvs repo.. is it anon-write? |
| 18:47 |
|
chris |
whoops wrong window |
| 18:47 |
|
chris |
ahh nope, but if youre keen, and have a sourceforge account i can give u write access |
| 18:48 |
|
ToyKeeper |
That would probably just give me more reasons to procrastinate. :) |
| 18:49 |
|
chris |
:-) |
| 18:49 |
|
chris |
filing a bug at bugs.koha.org is the next best thing :) |
| 18:49 |
|
ToyKeeper |
I'd end up fixing stuff instead of working on what my employer told me to. :) |
| 18:50 |
|
chris |
:-) |
