[OGo-Users] OGo WEBUI Skins

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> I'm a keen proponent of OGo and have a few OGo systems in production use 
> for clients who's networks I support.

Great.

> How difficult is it to design and implement a skin. One of the commonest 
> hurdles I have to deal with is objections from the 'normal' user 
> community who have been so used to MS Outlook presentation that they 
> struggle with the transition to OGo.

I don't think it is too terribly difficult, there are numerous examples
in the docs plone.

<http://docs.opengroupware.org/Members/thomas/themes/index_html/view>
<http://docs.opengroupware.org/Members/olivier/NewDock/index_html/view>
<http://docs.opengroupware.org/Members/lelarges/New_Theme_for_ogo_1.1/view>

But there are limitations to what a theme can do.  We've just dropped
our own WebUI in front of the server
<http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddv5htgd_33hdgx66dr>.  Ultimately, I
think you might find that easier;  but that really belongs over on
discuss@.

> (I also have the Zidelook add-on in place to allow connection from 
> Outlook and I'm keenly awaiting OL2007 functionality. )

I don't know anything about the state of the Outlook connector's
development.  That is more a question for Skyrix:  Is the Outlook
connector being developed further?  Is it being replaced with ZideOne
<http://www.zideone.com/>?  Will ZideOne even work with OGo, or is it
SOGo only (the web site suggests this)?

> While I do understand that the functionality is beyond Outlook/Exchange, 
> I think if we had a skin for OGo that resembled Outlook Web Access then 
> I think "Restistance would become obsolete" sooner and the transition 
> would be smoother.
> Any thoughts?

Well, there is allot here (and I have allot of thoughts!) that are
probably better suited to the discuss@ list
<http://mail.opengroupware.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss>