What about just reverting back to refresh as the default and just 
leaving the one format link? I would be fine with people having to hack 
out the kml reflector url themselves for superoverlay mode, as they do 
for download mode.

-Justin

Andrea Aime wrote:
> Hi,
> following http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-3185
> I would like to draw a plan to revert back KML to refresh
> mode and have people ask explicitly that they do want superoverlays.
> 
> The first step would be to have the kml reflector to default
> to refresh mode as opposed to super-overlay mode (and adjust
> the tests accordingly).
> 
> The second would be to make the superoverlay mode visible anyways,
> somehow. On 1.7.x I guess we can add it as a further link in the
> preview?
> http://geo.openplans.org:8080/geoserver/mapPreview.do
> Imagine a "KML (superovelay)" link among the others. There's
> enough space to just add it no?
> 
> Things are different on trunk, the preview page looks like
> attached and it's already quite busy.
> I would like to add the superoverlay into the the "all formats"
> drop down box as KML (superoverlay), however,
> this requires the superoverlay to be turned into a valid WMS
> output format, as the list is populated by scanning the map producers.
> 
> I guess it's doable if we create a subclass of KMLMapProducer that
> does use the mime type:
> 
> application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml; mode=superoverlay
> 
> (longest mime ever) and that forces is the superoverlay mode.
> 
> Otherwise I can decouple somehow the map producers and the
> drop down UI generation, with every producer having one or
> more descriptor bean that can be used to build a UI entry.
> 
> Opinions?
> Cheers
> Andrea
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