Real excited about this project, I feel that getting an updated standards-based back-end UI would give OFBiz adoption rate a massive boost and reduce internal training costs when deploying to “average users” :-)
—Paul On Oct 13, 2014, at 2:48 AM, Taher Alkhateeb <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >>>> > >
