[4.0] Backend template

[bembelimen]

Summary of Changes

Based on the design from @coolcat-creations and @svom this PR is the next milestone of the backend template "atum" for Joomla! 4. (see first PR here: #21006)

Team members:

@coolcat-creations, @svom, @chmst , @Hackwar, @nadjak77, @fancyFranci, @lavipr, @rdeutz and @karo3

Special thanks to @brianteeman for a lot of valuable feedback and fixes.

New features

• Rebuild the login layout including a new AJAX login
• New dashboard functionality: com_cpanel now offers dashboards for every kind of extension where modules can be placed, e.g. com_content: administrator/index.php?option=com_cpanel&view=cpanel&dashboard=content.
• Improvement of the menu with direkt dashboard and creation links.
• New quickicons on the main dashboard
• Filters in list views
• Improved edit screen
• Auto-calculation of the template color based on the template parameters
• extended colorpicker
• Installation template was updated, too
• a lot of small improvements

Testing

You can download the nightly of this PR here: https://developer.joomla.org/backend-template/

Extra ping: @wilsonge

[infograf768]

@infograf768 "UI is broken depending on screen size": Isn't that the case with current 4.0-dev, too?

Nope.

PLEASE only report issues here that are specific to this template. IE if it doesn't work without this PR applied either then report it as its own issue

It IS specific to this PR! Testing before posting is helpful.

This is what we get for the current template: we do NOT have this issue:

EDIT: Issue comes from css

.options-grid-form > div {
    grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr 1fr;
}

When it should be

.options-grid-form > div {
    grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr;
}

EDIT:
Solution is to add a class (here for itemadmin_component.xml, did not test with all menu items xml but looks similar for alias, heading, separator, url). As done for site menu items.

	<fields name="params" label="COM_MENUS_LINKTYPE_OPTIONS_LABEL">
		<fieldset name="menu-options"
			label="COM_MENUS_LINKTYPE_OPTIONS_LABEL"
			class="options-grid-form-half"
		>

[Scrabble96]

Good to have the 'real' name requested when installing Joomla, but could this say 'display name' instead?

[richard67]

@Scrabble96 The "real name" to be entered at installation has nothing to do with the new template and so nothing to do with this PR. It was a change made in 4.0-dev with Pull Request (PR) #25774 and came to the backend template by merging in latest 4.0-dev changes. So if you like to change that, make a new issue for 4.0-dev branch. But if it shall be changed, it should be changed everyhwre. Up to now I don't remeber having seen the term "display name" anywhere in J4 for the user name, so using this only at installation would be inconsistent with J4 after installation.

[wilsonge]

Thank you everyone who was involved here. @ciar4n i'm working on your sass changes at the moment and will do a PR to fix them over the next day or so (unfortunately a bit swamped with real life work at the moment). I know there are some issues raised in here that still aren't fixed but I don't believe these issues to be blocking the merge at this time either so that we have the unified code base and more people can explore and contribute towards this template.

I'd also like to reiterate the below comment I made

We are aware that once this is merged more people will be testing it and new issues will be discovered. That doesn't mean it's buggy or poor quality - it's just an acknowledgement that this was and still is a huge task and it's not possible for a small group of people to test, discover and fix everything