Using flexbox instead of floating grid

[gnehapk]

Reasons -

• Flexbox is content driven model. It does not need to know the content upfront.
• Contents can be redistributed.
• Allow boxes to wrap which is really handy for responsive design.

[nthomas-redhat]

why not patternfly? Is there any issues/challenges?

[shtripat]

Also as per guidelines from UX team, UI has to be patternfly compliant.

[gnehapk]

Patternfly provides us with good grid system which is good and suitable in dashboards and other form pages, but when it comes to the listing pages a good number of alignment issues has been faced in the skyrings web interface. Currently patternfly relies on Bootstrap grid system, which is based on floats. We do want to use patternfly for all the features it brings, but not having flexbox layouts are only concern against it.

[nthomas-redhat]

Thanks @gnehapk , @kmkanagaraj
@julienlim, can we have someone from the patternfly team here to understand the plans on this and see whether it is aligning with tendrl upstream release plans? or can you give some insights on this?

[debloper]

To add some more details here (conversation progressed through emails, thanks to @julienlim):

• The patternfly team did address their motif to base on top of BS4 in near future.
• The timeline of availability is unknown/TBA (need update, when available)
• All things considered, we might have to stick with floating grids for now.

So for now, PatternFly is the most fitting solution we have in hand.