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| Time | Nick | Message |
|---|---|---|
| 13:56 | kados | owen around? |
| 13:56 | :-) | |
| 13:57 | 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 | or are we going to try the 2.2 stuff (are there any bugs?) | |
| 14:01 | asside from the self-checkout stuff I don't think we're running any koha stuff on .60 at the moment | |
| 14:02 | 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 | 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 | there's a big on 76 | |
| 14:07 | s/big/bug/ | |
| 14:07 | that prevents any yaz stuff from working | |
| 14:07 | so that's why I had to move our server to .60 | |
| 14:08 | and that's why we need to do the z3950 searcehs on .60 | |
| 14:08 | 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 | hi owen | |
| 14:19 | ok | |
| 14:19 | I wish to ask about some commit | |
| 14:19 | 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 | # from the first 3 letters, build some kind of pseudorandom checksum | |
| 15:16 | # which is then transmogrified into an hex colour code, | |
| 15:16 | # 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 | 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 | ill let the html/css/designy ppl at work look at it | |
| 15:23 | 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 | 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 | 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 | http://library.katipo.co.nz/cg[…]ha/opac-search.pl <-- vanilla theme | |
| 15:32 | http://www.library.org.nz/cgi-[…]koha/opac-main.pl <--hlt theme | |
| 15:32 | 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 | 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 | it sets a cookie and from then on ur served the pages in that look/language | |
| 15:37 | 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 | yay for XUL | |
| 15:40 | 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 | This demonstrates several good ideas: http://plone.org | |
| 15:44 | They handle font size with javascript and css. It does a few other nice things, too. | |
| 18:45 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | :-) |
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