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. 
>>>> 
> 
> 

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