Re: [DISCUSSION] Improving the OFBiz User Interface

[Michael Brohl]

Hi Sharan,

thanks for the reminder.



- new themes should be responsive
















Thanks and regards,

Michael Brohl
ecomify GmbH
www.ecomify.de


Am 03.07.17 um 10:52 schrieb Sharan Foga:

It's fine to have another theme to choose for the "old" UI, I just want to point out that (in my mind) the new theme/UI initiative goes far beyond having just another theme on base of the current technological stack: - we should be able to use different UI frameworks like Bootstrap and AngularJS who take care of responsiveness and browser compatibility - it must be easy for developers to write the screen structure and also easy for webdesigners to build a good design on base of this - developers should not care about CSS styles and classes, and webdesigners should not cara about how the screen snippets are put together or how the screens get their data. - we will need a new approach to be able to "plug in" different UI frameworks. We'll need a UI layer who represents the screen contents in an abstracted way (possbly an enhanced Freemarker macro library) and make it possible to generate HTML code with the right css attributes for the target library. - a rewrite of the screens will be necessary to make the UI less cluttered and overloaded. This will require some concepts/design work beforehand - there are surely many other possible requirements (I am not a UX or web design expert) I appreciate the contribution of the new theme. I am also sure that this will not solve the challenge to drive OFBiz to another level, UI wise.

Hi All



https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-6985



Thanks
Sharan

On 03/07/17 10:29, Michael Brohl wrote:

Don't forget that we also had the offer of a theme from Provolve and Stannah. This is a theme that they are using at the moment (so it working) and have said it could be contributed back to the project. If it's only a case of having someone volunteer to implement it into the trunk then this could be a way to get a nice theme up and running quickly for us.

Thanks Nicolas,



This way other could chime in and help moving further.

Thanks,

Michael Brohl
ecomify GmbH
www.ecomify.de


Am 03.07.17 um 09:26 schrieb Nicolas Malin:

is there anything, even work in progress, you are able to share at the moment?

Hi Michael

Le 02/07/2017 à 20:42, Michael Brohl a écrit :

Hi Julien, all,

I'd like to resurrect this discussion and the activities to improve the OFBiz user interface. I think we really should put some focused effort on it if we want OFBiz to be recognized as a modern ERP. Also, if we imporve the UI, more users and also developers will be attracted which will be a win for the community and further development of OFBiz. Nicolas and others who have started work on this: can you give us an update about the efforts undertaken and where we stand?

Currently I block on the comon-theme with a good information propagation. My next step will be create a dedicate object as referent on widget context, but my works has been disturb with the framework separation and the git-svn link break. Instead of continue, I help some people to work on the groovy mini-lang conversion. I plan to improve a few the groovy DSL and after I continue the work on commont-theme.

Nicolas

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