[spree-user] Re: Spree Modulz

Colm, I am offended by your comments. Calling Spree 'mediocre' is an
extreme offence to the hard work of Alexey and the rest of us who have
worked hard on Spree over the years. Please refrain from making destructive
comments like this in the future. Comments like this breed an environment
which is damaging and not a good use of anybody's time.

My replies to your first post were in response to your vagueness in
describing effectively and clearly how Spree's interfaces were not
"insanely sexy".
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/spree-user/Colm/spree-user/1RntCEuUPEU/rhdOUv2Ly-4J.
You basically refused to go into any detail what so ever and gave up the
point after Sean explained clearly that Spree is designed to be plain so
that people can then go ahead and customize it.

I explained after this point that we would be open to having other themes
done for spree, such as our spree_fancy theme.

I did not reply to the second post regarding Modulz because I did not have
anything to add to that discussion. Modulz does appear to be only for
marketing sites only, based on my short investigation. I do not see how
this could be useful to Spree stores. Maybe I am missing something.

If you would like to contribute back to Spree, the best way to do this (as
outlined by Nate as a reply to your first post) would be to create your own
theme along the similar lines of spree_fancy, and make that available to
the Spree community.

Thank you for your time.

Hey Ryan,

Sorry to hear I offended you, that wasn't my intention at all. I can
appreciate the hard work that went into getting Spree where it is today and
I respect that. So I apologize for coming off a bit harsh.

The reason I gave up was not because of Sean's reply, it was because I
realized that you either thought Spree's designed couldn't be improved much
or you were personally offended at my suggestion and were never going to be
able to see past it. I also emailed Brian Quinn, who never replied. So,
after a certain amount of hostility and ignorance, I just gave up.

The truth is, I thought you were fobbing me off. I think it's quite clear
that both Spree's UI (user flows, interaction design, layouts, mobile
design) and its visual design (colors, typography, icons etc.) are far from
their full potential. That goes for Spree's themes, admin and marketing
site. I didn't think it needed any explaining, I thought it was just
obvious. So when you seemed a little reluctant, I thought you just didn't
want to get into it.

What I was proposing, was that I would design multiple variations of Spree
modules and package them up as a Modulz pack. So users could choose between
different Spree headers, Spree footers, Spree cart modules, Spree checkout
screens, Spree Product Pages, Spree Product lists etc. All modules would be
beautiful and responsive. Users could choose between a variety of color
schemes. Users could choose between flat and glossy (gradients, shadows
etc.) design styles. I'm surprised to hear you say you had nothing to add
to that suggestion. Perhaps I didn't explain myself well enough in my post.

Again, I apologize to you and anyone else I might have offended.