[OFBIZ-6516] Facilitate the use of Icons in Ofbiz by adding descriptive style to the widget-style attribute in forms

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: Trunk, Upcoming Branch
• Component/s: ALL APPLICATIONS

Environment

Ofbiz Web UI

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Gavin Mabie
• Created: 18/Jun/15 10:43
• Updated: 11/Jan/22 08:48

Description

Icons can be used to great effect to enhance both the user experience and as well as the look-and-feel of an application. In Ofbiz this is facilitated by using meaningful styles name in the widget-style attribute. Examples are "buttontext create", buttontext delete/remove", "buttontext update". That takes care of the basic CRUD actions. The widget-style attribute is used by front-end designers (on the presentation layer) to create their own designs via macro libraries, stylesheets and javascript files. It will be useful for designers if widget-styles are defined in a standard way in widget definitions (*forms.xml, *menu.xml etc). To set this process in motion I propose the following:
1. All "buttontext" widget-style attributes should have a meaningful additional class which describes the action linked to the button, i.e create, update, delete, refresh - depending on the action.
2. Add missing descriptive classes like "copy, print, view, download, save" etc.