Hello Everyone, Recently, we at Pythys had some interactions with clients, and the user interface proved to be a sour point. It is functioning well, but looks too classic, too rigid, too 2000s really :) We had many discussion and attempts in the past like [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] just to name a few all of which seemed not to follow through.
So what is the problem? Why is this hard to get right? I'm not sure I have the magic answer, but it seems to me like part of the problem is simply .. TOO BIG So I was thinking about a possible solution, and after some initial research, I think maybe the solution (like everything else) needs to be slow, incremental and evolutionary rather than revolutionary. So I am suggesting the following ideas to try and move forward: - We include the assets for Bootstrap in the common theme. Bootstrap will give us the Grid system which allows for a responsive website that works on all devices, it will also give us beautiful widgets to work with. - We include Vue.js assets in the common theme. Vue.js is an excellent framework for creating Single Page Applications (SPAs) to give dynamic behavior to our pages and create ajax-heavy pages - We slowly migrate our old CSS to bootstrap constructs. We can begin for example by replacing our menus, then tables, then headers, then buttons etc .. - We slowly introduce dynamic screens using controller logic in Vue.js - We slowly update our macro library to migrate to the above mentioned libraries and widgets - We do all of this live in Trunk, without branching. This means that for some period of time, there will be transitional code (a little bit of bootstrap and a little bit of our current code) We can start with an initial proof of concept skeleton, and if that gets consensus, then we can move forward with a full implementation in trunk. I think this issue is many years over due. Our interface looks oooooooooooooold and really needs a face lift. What do you think? Ideas? Suggestions? [1] https://s.apache.org/rf94 [2] https://s.apache.org/g5zr [3] https://s.apache.org/XpBO [4] https://s.apache.org/YIL1 [5] https://s.apache.org/836D [6] https://s.apache.org/DhyB [7] https://s.apache.org/Lv9E [8] https://s.apache.org/zKIo [9] https://s.apache.org/D6jx [10] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5840
