Puzzle - Anatomy of SAP Signature Design

Nice -:) That's why you always need to double check before posting something LOL
Greetings,
Blag.

> Well, that's a good point, but in my opinion, we should have the choice. If I choose to use 1920 x 1080 on my screen, and display the sapgui as full screen, I should be able to fill the screen with SAP data.
> That's the way, nearly all Windows apps do work !
Native Windows applications - yes - I agree. But if you look at websites, you'll see that they are "optimized" for some special screen resolution (mostly 1024 x 768). And we still buy many laptops and netbooks with that max. resolution. Of course, it would be nice to have a choice
> We get a lot od complaints from our users because of the lack of ergonomy od SAP R/3 or ECC 6 standard transactions. We have, more and more, to develop BSP web applications as a workaround to this problem. On our production ECC6 system we now consume more HTTP and RFC steps than dialog steps...
Sounds interesting I'd love to see how you built MD04 or a VA01/VA02/VA03 in BSP/Web - seriously. Our users complain always that the web applications "feel" to slow, a click and you have to wait a second or more, if you need to enter a huge amount of data each day it's just too slow - by design.
> I tried the SAP Signature Design as I happen to use SAPGUI 7.0 pl 12. The look is nice but it is just a gadget. We won't even show its existence to our users.
We did - and the users liked it although it's "just" a theme on top. Most complains came because it's no more possible to change colors and if you work with a dozen systems it's a bit difficult/cumbersome to distinguish between the windows
> It reminds me about the "Enjoy SAP" Gimmick. Users were already asking for ergonomy and SAP painted the screens from grey to blue....
True. Without education/classes nobody is able to enter an order in VA01 correctly
> I do understand that with dynpro/sapgui technology, this problem is very difficult to overcome.
You could use GuiXT
Markus

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The question actually is, do you know of this problem, is there something I can disable or do to get it to work (ie: make it run with compatibility mode to something) or do I just have to live with this problem?
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Hi Ron,
Welcome you post on the forum.
I don't have the same version to test. Based on your detailed explanation, I do think it is probably a bug. Since it may not be used by many users, it could have low priority to be fixed even if it is confirmed to be a bug.
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Good afternoon - I have installed a SAPGui 7.10 Compilation 3 Installation Server and I have installed the SAPGui on a frontend machine. It seems that you have to manually choose the SAP Signature Design in TweakGui before this becomes the default on that machine. I would like to be able to make this the default theme after installation so that users don't have to manually choose it. It there an .ini file or a registry setting where this is recorded so that I could push out this setting or set it during the install/update of the SAPGui?
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Should be stored in HKLM (or HKCU) \Software\SAP\General\Appearance\UseSMCRendering with a value of 1.
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[https://websmp130.sap-ag.de/sap(bD1lbiZjPTAwMQ==)/bc/bsp/spn/sapnotes/index2.htm?numm=1233328]

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Should the new signature design delivered in patch 11 also cause a speed boost? I don't have hard benchmark numbers before and after, but the GUI just feels more responsive on my machine after apply the patch and switching themes.
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Hi all,
as one of our tests we perform for each patch / compilation of SAP GUI for Windows we measure the performance (focus is on CPU utilization, memory consumption and used GDI objects). For SAP Signature Design we have measured the performance a number of times and have compared this to Enjoy.
During the early stages of SAP Signature Design development we have seen a big difference between Enjoy and SAP Signature Design: SAP Signature Design consumed a lot more than Enjoy.
Through various cycles of improvement and optimization we have managed to reduce the difference between Enjoy and SAP Signature Design to the values mentioned in SAP note 26417:
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Therefore this should not be a big issue unless you are using Terminal Servers (on a WTS this may be an issue since many users on the same hardware will need the additional 12MB).
The additional CPU utilization is required for the different drawing mechanisms (e.g. the shadows) and we currently see no way to further significantly improve this.
To answer your original question:
Even though SAP Signature Design is looking faster than Enjoy, it is not. I think the modern optical impression of the new design helps to make it look faster and on modern PCs we do not expect any significant performance issues. Therefore you probably have the "feeling" that it is faster (and this is great since the impression of the end user is very important, too).
I hope that helps to answer the question.
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My apologies.
I cannot speak for SAP's reasons as I do not work for them, however, the difference here which we have encountered is just the choice for users to make it more aesthetically pleasing. There are no items/options/buttons which are missing due to the theme selection. (At least that we have heard or come across) It is more of a personal choice. I do not use the signature design personally but many users have adopted the new theme. We have about 20-30 thousand users of SAP gui and just have a document posted on how to change the theme if they do not like the SAP Signature one as it was the default when rolled out.
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Ravi Sankar wrote:>
> Are these puzzles really related to SAP. This is a big puzzle. We may not get answer for that, like answers to those puzzles....
check below for the Description of the Forum
>> Forum: Puzzle Challenge in SAP
>> This forum is to post puzzles which are designed by SAP employees. Participants may have fun with >> puzzle challenge.
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