Re: Alternative UI: Vaadin proof of concept

2017-09-07 Thread Hans Bakker
Hi Michael, The main advantage i see is that Vaadin is like ofbiz screens/forms in that you do not need to know css/html/javasccript to create an application, but Vaadin is developed much further having much more add-ons. Further Vaadin has a much larger user base. They both have

Re: UI improvement for tables in OFBiz

2017-09-07 Thread Paul Mandeltort
In the other thread, folks were talking about Vaadin which would supersede this discussion, I believe. For this application I think Vaadin (in particular the Grid component) is an ideal fit, because it is a complete UI framework, vs Bootstrap which is just a nice client-side CSS/JS theme.

Re: Alternative UI: Vaadin proof of concept

2017-09-07 Thread Jacques Le Roux
I totally agree with Julien and Taher, we need to think about the future... Jacques Le 07/09/2017 à 12:17, Taher Alkhateeb a écrit : I agree with Julien, and it is the reason we suggested in the first to place starting the themes refactoring exercise. We needed to move anything "web" related

Re: Alternative UI: Vaadin proof of concept

2017-09-07 Thread Taher Alkhateeb
I agree with Julien, and it is the reason we suggested in the first to place starting the themes refactoring exercise. We needed to move anything "web" related _outside_ the framework and then automate stuff through macros. If the work being done is isolated from the framework, then that would be

Re: Alternative UI: Vaadin proof of concept

2017-09-07 Thread Julien NICOLAS
Hello, If I don't make mistakes, with common theme (thanks to Nicolas for that), we don't need to 'define' a new technology. We don't need to choose bootstrap or vaadin. We only need one thing, we need somebody to make a new theme. If this theme is using vaading, we wil see the power behind

inheriting COA from other accounting package(s)

2017-09-07 Thread Rajesh Mallah
Hi , I was planning to re-use the default COA of some popular accounting package(s) in India into OfBiz. This is so that accountants feel comfortable and familiar with the heads while working with OfBiz Any ideas if the default (top-level) COA of an accounting package be an IP of the company

Re: UI improvement for tables in OFBiz

2017-09-07 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Hi Michael, All, Why not Foundation? It's true that Bootstrap, I guess due to its origin,  is more widely used, but Foundation has some arguments. https://www.google.fr/search?q=Bootstrap+vs+Foundation=UTF-8 Nnotably when it comes to tables that OFBiz uses a lot (please see Rajesh's and my

Re: UI improvement for tables in OFBiz

2017-09-07 Thread Michael Brohl
A bit late to the party but I totally agree that we should make use of an existing standard instead of reinventing our own wheel. +1 for bootstrap Regards, Michael Am 26.08.17 um 21:19 schrieb Taher Alkhateeb: If I may suggest, I think we should go with something established and not come

Re: Alternative UI: Vaadin proof of concept

2017-09-07 Thread Michael Brohl
Hi Hans, can you give us some thoughts how Vaadin would be a better approach than using a modern bootstrap theme (see Nicolas' efforts on the common theme)? Thanks and regards, Michael Am 29.08.17 um 03:36 schrieb Hans Bakker: Users/developers, I would like to present an alternative UI