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amborle / featmap

The simple and open source user story mapping tool.
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Allow to specify a custom CSS stylesheet to a project / workspace #31

Open ngirard opened 3 years ago

ngirard commented 3 years ago

As mentioned in #30, such a feature would allow to customize the printout of a map.

It would be useful to other cases, such as customizing the apparence of closed cards.

ngirard commented 3 years ago

(...) Being able to add custom CSS is something I would rather avoid.

That's too bad... Would you mind elaborating ?

amborle commented 3 years ago

I feel that custom css is an exceedingly technical solution for most users, when the correct solution is simply a better UI.

ngirard commented 3 years ago

I understand and respect your position.

Let me offer a counterexample as food for thought.

The great personal knowledge management application Obsidian, despite being less than a year old, has become very popular and has grown quite a large community already.

There are many reasons behind this success, one of which is the talent of the two developers. But a big reason is that the application is fully expandable through plugins and its UI is customizable through CSS. You'd be surprised how many people can become literate in styling an app using CSS because they want/need so, without having any programming or technical background to begin with. The Obsidian community is full of them.

I think CSS holds a very particular place within domain-specific languages, as it is ubiquitous, is quite easy to grasp, and every browser now allows to hack the CSS of any page instantly.

Again, just food for thought.

lockered commented 3 years ago

Maybe I can add another perspective:

At the moment featmap is a really nice tool, but it is kind of isolated from other tools or even workflows. I think most of the issues ngirard brings in, points toward a way to integrate featmap in an existing workflow. This could be tailoring or coating (not shure whether the words make sense in english) it with a coporate indentity or export the work done to external partners (as image, ...). If customizable CSS is accepted or helpful for this kind of work why not?

In another related issue ngirard shows a complicated way to generate an image from the map, at least from my point of view. My own first try was to use screen shot tools to get an image but after realising, that this gets messy if the story map exeeds the screen I have looked into an completely different direction: I've added an export beside csv to export only the story map as wiki table. It is ugly looking from the possibilities of modern CSS, but it suits my needs.