Hi Nicolas, Great! I'm rubbing hands in excitement. What is the next action now? open a JIRA, have a discussion on mailing list? Furthermore, such a project requires a lot of collaboration. Do we have a platform or a solution for easier collaboration on this project?
Regards, Taher Alkhateeb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicolas Malin" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, 13 October, 2014 4:47:05 AM Subject: Re: Theme bootstrap Hi all, I updated the page https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBADMIN/New+Features+Roadmap+-+Living+Document, Now the best way will be move the discussion on dev and set your battle line on jira ;) Nicolas Le 2014-10-10 15:50, Julien NICOLAS a écrit : > Hi Gavin, Pierre, Florient and Taher, > > It's a good news that you all join the team :) > > Other thanks to Adrian for informations ! > > Maybe the first step could be to create a setting which allow to > switch from old management to the new one because it seems to be hard > to change the framework without breaking old css themes. > > Another important point is to define a mock-up for the basic > navigation and apply it for easiest navigation. This will be helpful > to work with the other points. > > Taher, I think that it's a big task because we can find several types > of screens (widget, ftl, form, etc.) and many technologies very > helpful but maybe it's time to unify the main software UI. > Even if we keep all technologies that make the software flexibility, > it's important to be coherent in standard UI. > > So I suggest this following steps : > 1 - Create themes switch > 2 - Submit several mock-up for the basic navigation (ask community > feeling) > 3 - Implement basic navigation > 4 - Mock-up for standard to unify standard UI (ask community feeling) > 5 - Screen widgets > 6 - Form Widgets > 7 - Styling > > I think point 2 and 4 could be running during working on the others > but we have to start to submit mock-ups to the community because > discussions could take a lot of time ;) > > Julien. > > > Le 10/10/2014 11:49, Gavin Mabie a écrit : >> Hi Julien >> >> I'd like to join the team. I've done some work with bootstrap, >> albeit on >> ecommerce and front-end sites. For backend apps I believe that the >> task >> should be approached systematically and that this could also be an >> opportunity to bed down some ui design principles - which could >> captured in >> the wiki - as a page on its own. The wiki already contains >> information on >> widgets ( >> >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Understanding+the+OFBiz+Widget+Toolkit), >> >> but nowhere does it recommend best practices for ui design. A >> suggested >> approach: >> 1. Start with screen widgets - the widget-screen.xsd will need to be >> revisited to align this with the Bootstrap CSS (grid-system amongst >> others); >> 2. Form widgets - revisit widget-form.xsd; >> 3. Menus and navigation - widget-menu.xsd; >> 4. Styling - customisation and theming. >> >> What do you think? >> >> Gavin >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Julien NICOLAS >> <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm working on a basic bootstrap theme for OFBiz. >>> My goal is that OFBiz project uses bootstrap standard classes to >>> work. >>> >>> I encountered some issues that I've fixed. The problem is that I >>> change >>> the framework and if I want to share my work with the community, it >>> could >>> be better to do it in the best way. >>> >>> I know that it's a task in the roadmap, so I hope somebody is >>> already >>> working on or waiting for team mate :) >>> >>> I'm actually focused on : >>> - Portlet-widget structure >>> - KeywordSearchform >>> - Multi-menu management >>> >>> Who can help me on this topic ? >>> >>> Thanks by advanced, >>> >>> Julien. >>>
