Re: Theme bootstrap

[Thiep LE VAN <th...@olbius.vn>]

Hi Julien,

I'd like to work with you !

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 4:40 AM, Jacques Le Roux <
jacques.le.roux@les7arts.com> wrote:

> I really appreciate the common envisioned effort on this, and I see that
> lessons from the past have been learned by new comers, this is really a
> great and promising start.
>
> Even if I prefer the Tomahawk theme for convenience (I'm a bit daltonian,
> this might explain) I'm not against the FlatGrey theme and having RTL
> support from start is certainly a must.
> Just a request then, please replace the top menu by dropdown menus like in
> Tomahawk.  If you care why please read the last section of
> http://markmail.org/message/i653srayddy2bkr7 about columns and newspapers
> Also if at last we could alphabetically sort the menu entries that would
> be a great improvement :D. But of course this should be adjustable by
> language (how to for RTL languages is a good question)
>
> Jacques
>
>
> Le 28/10/2014 09:05, Julien NICOLAS a écrit :
>
>  I just create a sub-task of OFBIZ-5040 : https://issues.apache.org/
>> jira/browse/OFBIZ-5840
>>
>> No problem for me to start form flatgrey.
>>
>> Julien.
>>
>> Le 28/10/2014 08:38, Taher Alkhateeb a écrit :
>>
>>> Hi Julien & Team,
>>>
>>> Okay so great ideas so far. We need to reach consensus now to move
>>> forward.
>>> If I may attempt to summarize we need to implement the following:
>>>
>>> 1- create a sub-directory called bootstrap under the image webapp to put
>>> the resources over there (js, css and fonts) as indicated earlier by
>>> Gavin.
>>> 2- check to make sure that the current version of jQuery is compatible
>>> with
>>> the installed version or upgrade it accordingly
>>> 3- Create a new theme based on one of the existing themes as suggested by
>>> Julien and Gavin
>>> 4- Test the theme by switching to it and handle major bugs / issues.
>>> 5- Start to make a few test screens utilizing Bootstrap
>>>
>>> To that end, we prefer the FlatGrey theme because it supports RTL (which
>>> is
>>> an advantage to us as we provide Arabic support in OFBiz). However, if
>>> you
>>> find Tomahawk a better candidate then we can go with it and we will work
>>> on
>>> applying RTL to it within the same project.
>>>
>>> So, do we agree? who / how / when can we move forward. Do we still need
>>> to
>>> discuss this further?
>>>
>>> Taher Alkhateeb
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Julien NICOLAS <
>>> julien.nicolas@nomaka.fr>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Thanks Erik,
>>>>
>>>> Welcome in the team :)
>>>>
>>>> Julien.
>>>>
>>>> Le 27/10/2014 17:21, Erik Schuessler a écrit :
>>>>
>>>>  Hey all, I worked on the tomahawk theme a while back with Bruno. I was
>>>>> wanting to make a clean responsive version of ofbiz and would be able
>>>>> to
>>>>> help out on a theme look and feel.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Erik
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Julien NICOLAS" <ju...@nomaka.fr>
>>>>> To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org
>>>>> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 3:58:55 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
>>>>> Subject: Re: Theme bootstrap
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Taher,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Le 26/10/2014 12:50, Taher Alkhateeb a écrit :
>>>>>
>>>>>  Hi Julien, everyone!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I suggest we move forward in this project. First things first, we
>>>>>> need to
>>>>>> integrate bootstrap into the framework. So I think the following steps
>>>>>> are
>>>>>> to be done next:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1- copy the resources to the images component (CSS, JS, and Fonts) and
>>>>>> include them in the base CommonScreens.xml
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  I think it could be better to use themes for that. The goal is to
>>>>> allow
>>>>> including any others CSS/HTML framework (like Zurb framework).
>>>>>
>>>>>  2- Repeat step 1 above to SASS (thank god Bootstrap move away from
>>>>>> LESS)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  I don't know how the CSS pre-processor could work in OFBiz Framework.
>>>>> Could you explain how we will use it ?
>>>>>
>>>>>  3- Ensure that our jQuery dependencies are adequately met
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We can then have a few test screens to make sure everything is working
>>>>>> more
>>>>>> or less!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Julien, can we proceed with the above suggested? Do we need to open
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> JIRA first, and who should do that?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  I was thinking that we start with following points that you already
>>>>> suggest as first steps :
>>>>>
>>>>> - Identify the major milestones or objectives
>>>>> - Discuss and decide upon the best methodology for implementation of
>>>>> the
>>>>> above objectives
>>>>> - Decide on a collaboration platform (in addition to what exists) if
>>>>> any.
>>>>> - Dive into code directly and just hand off tasks to volunteers who
>>>>> find
>>>>> them interesting / appealing from the team
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I think that we are already in the first step "Identify the major
>>>>> milestones and objectives".
>>>>>
>>>>> It could be a good thing if any volunteers explain his opinion about
>>>>> objectives.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not sure to push bootstrap as the main CSS/HTML framework of OFBiz
>>>>> is the best way. I would prefer to work to allow any CSS/HTML framework
>>>>> working with OFBiz thanks to themes manager (suggested by Richard
>>>>> Siddall http://markmail.org/message/vn6ptu2izykvov6n). In this way we
>>>>> can solve issues like this Jira
>>>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5040.
>>>>>
>>>>> In my opinion, objectives are :
>>>>>        - Identify how to modify framework to allow bootstrap working
>>>>> (bootstrap included in a theme)
>>>>>        - Create bootstrap basic theme
>>>>>        - Modify framework for working with bootstrap (or other
>>>>> framework)
>>>>>        - identify all screens that are not working and correct theme or
>>>>> ofbiz framework.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>   Taher Alkhateeb.
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Adrian Crum <
>>>>>> adrian.crum@sandglass-software.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   It is important to understand the screen widget architecture:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Widget Models -> Renderer -> FreeMarker Macros -> HTML + CSS (or CSV,
>>>>>>> or...)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The Widget Models and Renderer are output agnostic - they don't
>>>>>>> "know"
>>>>>>> what type of output is being generated. So those artifacts do not
>>>>>>> need
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> be changed to support Bootstrap.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The only things that need to be changed to support Bootstrap are the
>>>>>>> FreeMarker macros - so that they output Bootstrap HTML + CSS instead
>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> current OFBiz-specific HTML + CSS.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You can still use the visual themes functionality, but they will be
>>>>>>> different themes - since the HTML being styled is completely
>>>>>>> different.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Adrian Crum
>>>>>>> Sandglass Software
>>>>>>> www.sandglass-software.com
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 10/23/2014 10:29 PM, Florient wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   Hi Julien, Adrian, Community,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Le 23/10/2014 08:46, Adrian Crum a écrit :
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   On 10/23/2014 7:12 AM, Julien NICOLAS wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>   For this point I suggest to work on this way : Create tool to
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> delegate
>>>>>>>>>> HTML widget structure (and other structure) into theme framework.
>>>>>>>>>> To be clear, I suggest to not integrate bootstrap only but modify
>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>> framework to allow any other HTML/CSS frameworks integration
>>>>>>>>>> without
>>>>>>>>>> modifying the OFBiz framework.
>>>>>>>>>> But we'll do it for bootstrap first.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>   You don't need to modify the framework. The screen widgets
>>>>>>>>>> allow you
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> to substitute alternate macros for the rendering engine. See
>>>>>>>>> widget.properties.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Adrian Crum
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>   correct me if I'm wrong,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> but if we use widget's properties, we will not be able to provide a
>>>>>>>> hot-swap between them, except by creating new output type.
>>>>>>>> It sounds like duplicate each actual view-map definition using
>>>>>>>> 'screen'
>>>>>>>> type to the new one, as the CSV rendering.
>>>>>>>> or am I missing the way that widget allow us to substitute macros
>>>>>>>> rendering ?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>> Florient.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>
>>
>>


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