Hi David, 1) A PortalPage widget would be useful in order to easily add user-customizable areas in every screen 2) We need a way to have components to extend the UI of the components they depend on. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-3373 3) A collapsible left column (containing a PortalPage widget) would allow to have more information on the screen 4) Generally more consistency. All the screens of all applications should be more similar in the layout
-Bruno 2010/3/11 David E Jones <d...@me.com> > > If you could change anything about the user interface tier in OFBiz > (basically the ControlServlet, the various widgets (Screen, Form, Menu, > Tree), the separate webapps, actions in (or not in) groovy, etc), what would > you change? > > All comments are welcome. If there is another tool you'd like to see used > instead of the Screen Widget (for example), please describe what you like > about it (like "I like to orchestrate my web pages using Java classes" or "I > like having fewer/more/bigger/smaller files" or "I hate having to declare > every request and view" or "I wish the screens used included screens > top-down instead of the bottom-up decorator pattern") instead of just > mentioning the tool (like "let's use Struts!"). > > Why am I asking? This topic comes up every once in a while, and it's true > that many suggestions never get enough support to actually happen (or on > further research it is decided that the idea is not tenable), but > brainstorming about them to get ideas in the open is still a great thing. > The history of OFBiz is full of things like this where users and more casual > contributors had ideas and saw possibilities that others, even more involved > contributors, totally missed or never looked at that way. What I think would > be fun, and ultimately useful too, is to keep this mostly to brainstorming > and not do too much comparing of ideas. > > BTW, if you want to brainstorm about another tier (ie the Data or Logic > tiers) please use the other threads on those. If you'd like to discuss > things that aren't specific to a tier look for the "General" thread. > > -David > >
