Teaser screenshot of new Virtualmin theme

Howdy all,

I've been holed up in the New Mexico mountains for the past two weeks with slow Internet and not a lot of distractions. I've put the time to good use, and have learned enough JavaScript to overcome several of the major issues that have been preventing Virtualmin from becoming a single-page application...which is a mandatory step to becoming an AJAX-enabled application.

So, I'm probably two weeks away from releasing an alpha version of a Bootstrap+jQuery theme for Virtualmin (and Cloudmin and Webmin and Usermin). It's not in a testable state yet (about half the time when clicking it doesn't do anything useful; the other half of the time it does something dangerous), but I'll begin rolling alpha versions out into the repo as soon as it's in a mostly usable state.

I just wanted to share where I'm at with it currently. It's not exactly pretty (it's almost wholly unstyled, keeping it simple and stripped down while I sort out functionality)...but, it's already looking cleaner and in some ways prettier than our current them. Switching to Bootstrap also provides a well-known set of theming conventions, and dozens of excellent free themes already made. I'm pretty excited about the potential of being able to hire designers who just know good design...they won't need to know Perl or Webmin's backend anymore, which is a vast improvement over the current state of theming for Webmin.

Without further ado, here's what it looked like at the end of my hacking on it today: http://i.imgur.com/UdTdqZC.png

Cheers, Joe