Thanks Adrian for your recent work and concerns over moving on to use best
practices and new features especially in things that has been added newly to
the project. I am not a expert in this but still want to clarify few things.
1) What is the best way to show navigation options in a list form. Either
<screenlet> should be used or not.
2) If a screen has a list and add form, what should be the order of these
forms (I have seen in your recent work that add form should come on top and
I completely
agree with this).
BTW, I have tried to use <screenlet> widget instead of <container> in
screens for sfa component but the results are weird. The screenlet bar comes
out bigger in size. I will try to find out the cause but would appreciate
help on this as well.
Thank You,
Vikas
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Adrian Crum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think we need to develop some layout best practices for the main content
> area. There seems to be some lack of direction or a lack of consistency in
> that area of the UI. It may be due to new contributors and committers coming
> on board who aren't aware of the existing "de facto" layout practices.
>
> For instance, there seems to be an overabundance of screenlets being used.
> Also, "Create New" buttons aren't placed in the layout in a consistent way.
>
> Many of the screens in OFBiz follow a certain pattern, so they lend
> themselves well to screen decorators. The Find screen decorator (
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-1635) is a good example. We
> could do the same thing with other types of screens.
>
> I think it would be a good thing to get a discussion going. Let's share our
> experiences with UIs, pros and cons of different approaches, share
> screenshots, etc. Then we can condense it all into a UI Best Practices guide
> for the Wiki.
>
> What do you think?
>
> -Adrian
>
