k2store compatibility

Professional Joomla restaurant template comes with a custom animated modules and advanced typography elements.
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Mon Aug 12, 2013 1:39 pm
Greetings. I downloaded joomla 3 and installed k2, k2store and the restaurant template. I added a category and a single item (incl price, name, image and description). The item does not appear the way a virtuemart product does. Why is this? I thought this template automatically supported k2store...?
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Mon Aug 12, 2013 3:17 pm
Sorry, but we only support VirtueMart plugin right now :(.
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GK User
Mon Aug 12, 2013 4:09 pm
What? The template details clearly state k2store...?
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GK User
Mon Aug 12, 2013 5:15 pm
I'll consult that with our dev team to be more clearly - You are absolutely right, there is an info about k2 store support in template description.
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Mon Aug 12, 2013 6:58 pm
Thanks. Really looking forward to an answer on this one.
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Mon Aug 12, 2013 8:28 pm
Meanwhile, could You please post an url to your site?
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GK User
Tue Aug 13, 2013 1:45 am
Doing this locally at the moment... Is there a need for an public URL on this matter?
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Tue Aug 13, 2013 3:52 pm
I wanted to check how single product looks, perhaps You could post a screenshot?
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Tue Aug 13, 2013 5:23 pm
Sure thing. Image attached.

Any word from the devs yet? I'm literally waiting on word for continued development of this project...
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Wed Aug 14, 2013 4:57 pm
Ok, I have some more informations.
As k2Store its not 100% store, its more like adding "shoping cart" to standard k2 - id uses standard k2 article view, with just added possibility to place an order.
With this in mind - k2 view doesn't look like virtuemart - where product page is a different page than standard article. It looks just as stanrard k2 item with added few features.
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Wed Aug 14, 2013 5:41 pm
If this is the limit of support for K2Store, I really think you ought to remove it from the template demo page where you advertise it:
Using various, including 3rd party extensions, this time we have built:
support for K2 component
support for K2 Store
Sounds to me like there's no support at all for k2store styling, just k2. I'm disappointed in Gavick for 'selling' the template advertising support for k2store, when there really isn't any at all.
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Sat Aug 17, 2013 10:51 am
It depends how You look on a topic. If You would know the "codig" part of k2 store and how it works, it would be obvious that it is not a standard shop plugin, just the addon to k2 component. And with that in mind, advanced styling is not possible.
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Tue Aug 20, 2013 7:27 pm
I appreciate your opinion, but I don't see how Gavick is developing for k2store at all. To me, it appears Gavick supports no ecommerce solution other than Virtuemart, and should, therefore, not list it as a supported extension. Gavick develops for k2store in the same way it supports Hikashop - not at all.
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Tue Aug 20, 2013 9:47 pm
I cant agree wit You.
there are styles for k2store to support what it generates (the html code), and because this generated code is simple, so is the styling (without the styling all aditional elements would just look weird).
VirtueMart on the other hand generates completely different code, written specially for this purpose, and so the styling can me more advanced.
What isn my opinion most important - Yu cant style the html code that is just not there (k2 store), and rewriting k2store to generate more custom code is not our job.
I dont know if you are advanced frontend developer who knows html and css well and knows what I'm talking about. Its like changing tires in your car - sure they will give you better secutiry etc, but will not change the way your car looks entirely (k2store). You need to change entire car to see the difference (VirtueMrt).
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