I like (all) the ideas, but that sounds like a long term plan :)
Jacques
Le 28/11/2016 à 23:02, Taher Alkhateeb a écrit :
Hi Sharan and All,
I believe this is a very important topic. The user interface is the weakest
part in OFBiz and I think we should focus our attention on it. Based on
your points discussed above and our brainstorming session in Apachecon I
suggest we start with the following initiatives:
- Create a base theme. This theme would be raw (no colors, no design) that
just works and renders things correctly. It also houses the low-level
libraries and utilities shared among the themes (e.g. bootstrap, jQuery,
etc ...). In addition, this theme would also house a unified FTL macro
library to render _everything_
- Create at least one higher level theme based on the above mentioned base
theme.
- Modify the widget system to allow the creation of custom widgets. A
custom widget can then be implemented _outside_ the framework (in the theme
itself, or whatever user interface you choose like swing or FOP)
- Create a component (we can call it backend or something like that) that
provides all the back-end user interfaces for managing the system. The
critical part here is to have _zero_ FTL, HTML, CSS or JavaScript in this
component. All the web stuff should reside in the themes and the widgets
remain a pure DSL.
The current user interface is full of <platform-specific ...> tags for
dropping in freemarker templates. So refactoring would be a huge pain. A
fresh start makes sense and that's why I make the above proposition.
Ideas? Thoughts?
Cheers,
Taher Alkhateeb
On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 12:25 AM, gil portenseigne <
gil.portensei...@nereide.fr> wrote:
Hi Paul,
Nice point, i really think you're right about standardization, and that
will be a very important step to write down and to ensure it will be well
used/updated in future implementations.
And indeed it will be huge work to migrate all component to this
standardization, and will be easier to write down from scratch new
standardized components.
Thanks,
Gil
On 28/11/2016 21:39, Paul Piper wrote:
That wasn't meant as trolling, Nicolas. It is a good idea and absolutely
needed. Perhaps as a cautious advice: your problem is going to be
standardization, more so than the UI.
The html in stock ofbiz is a mess and the apps don't really share a common
pattern. For Scipio ERP we cleaned it all up, which took weeks by itself
before we were even able to start on anything useful. Besides that, you will
have to think about the difference in development techniques used. Some apps
rely on *widgets, others on plain ftl. Whatever approach you choose, you
will have to either reimplement all apps, or take care of these differences.
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