Martin Aspeli wrote:
whit wrote:
re: zmi. lets talk about being painfully modal. The fact we are
having this conversation seems to indicate a different and wider
issue to me.
Without wanting to get into an abstract and
easy-to-talk-past-each-other discussion, I think you're right. :-)
A useful metric may be "if it's too complex for real users and thus
not good to keep in the control panel, it should be configurable in
code".
"Configurable in code" should not mean "go change config.py", it
should mean "override this component or register something else for
this interface" if you need to alter behaviour.
How's that for abstract and easy to misunderstand? :)
sort of? I only half agree if I understand you correctly.
we still have some larger knobs that can't be configured via the FS (or
are more useful if not): persistent components being the big one I see
here without thinking too hard. I also think there is a level of
complexity between average site admin control panel tasks and fullon fs
configuration.
Also, our filesystem configuration story is sort of a mess too with all
the different zope2 and zope3 "options" (ever tried to explain
commenting out zcml or adding slugs to someone unfamiliar with zope3?
does anyone doing core development now know Zconfig?)
this doesn't justify doing more TTW, it just makes "configurable in
code" harder to sell as reasonable step downward from controlpanel.
As stated before, I think there is a place for some sort of extension of
the plone.app.controlpanel and maybe making some reasonable linkage so
if advanced options are available, we have a standard sane way of
hooking them up and for the appropriate real users to get to them. My
prediction is that addon developers can and will do this(it's the path
of least resistance)...
so we might as well have a good way to handle it.
-w
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