Gavin I added you in the related section Jacques
On Saturday, January 04, 2014 6:28 PM, kwikst...@gmail.com wrote > Hi Guys > > Best wishes to everybody for 2014. I would like to support the > prioritisation of theme development for 2014. Jacques, I noticed that you > are specifically talking about backend widget > forms. What about ecommerce? IMO that little attention is given to > frontend design and even less is done to accommodate design-orientated > developers. Theme developement in Ofbiz has a long way to go if it is to > reach the levels of standardisation, ease and portability attained and used > in CMS apps like Drupal, WordPress etc. and Ecommerce packages like > Magento. Keep up the good work. > > Gavin > > > On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Jacques Le Roux < > jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> wrote: > >> To be pragmatic, rather than working on new features, a new framework or >> whatever, I'd like to work on "Widget & Application HTML clean-up" >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5040 >> >> I have heard much complaints about this and I'd really like to 1st replace >> as much as possible the Freemarker templates used in backend by widget >> forms. >> >> I know already some cases where it's impossible, like the geo location. >> But in most cases this should be possible and would much facilitate >> designers work, when themes or such are needed. >> Because we would then have a consistent HTML generation. >> And in most cases even a better (consistent) UI, compare the old Price >> Rules and Promotions for instance >> (still available at >> >> https://demo-old.ofbiz.apache.org/catalog/control/EditProductPriceRules?productPriceRuleId=9000 >> >> https://demo-old.ofbiz.apache.org/catalog/control/EditProductPromoRules?productPromoId=9000 >> ) >> >> Because it contained a new FTL template, I recently refused to commit a >> working patch for "Improve to allow purchase order ship method options" >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5387 >> >> >> I though must say that I still want to finish pending new features >> (actually 2 new specialpurpose components) >> >> 1) I expect to merge the seo branch soon >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5312. >> I only see minor issues now, and anyway at some point you need to have >> your feet wet... >> >> 2) And to finish the Solr integration >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5042. >> I sill have to figure out how bad is the security issue. In a first step >> adding a credential acces to the the Solr admin should be enough. But yes >> underneath is not totally secured as is... >> >> Jacques >> >> >> On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 1:55 PM adrian.crum@sandglass-software.comwrote >>> Maybe we can use the start of the new year as an opportunity to consider >>> the future of OFBiz and update our road map: >>> >>> >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBADMIN/New+Features+Roadmap+-+Living+Document
