On May 18, 2008, at 6:24 AM, Martin Aspeli wrote:
* Skinning
Zope 2 vs. Zope 3 technologies
Yes - this is probably the top of my list to unify (and also very
hard).
I think the following efforts would take us 80% of the way in regard
to staunching some of the pain that new techniques have brought for
skinners (probably targetting plone 4?):
- Add browser layer support to z3c.jbot and promote it as the
recommended way to do filesystem customization of resources registered
through ZCML (for those not familiar with jbot, this may sound like
yet another technology, but really it's a simplification. It allows
customization of things like viewlet and portlet templates just by
placing a ZPT in the correct filesystem directory, so that it feels
more like a skin layer.)
- Devise a UI for through-the-web customization that unifies the skin
layer (portal_skins) and customerize (portal_view_customizations)
approaches. (An entry-level skinner should not need to know *how* the
template they are customizing is registered; just where to find it.)
Ideally I think this would appear in the Plone control panel as
opposed to the ZMI, to be more approachable (I'm thinking of
Wordpress' theme editor.) It's probably also a good idea to provide
in-context links to customize, (the proverbial Introspector, which I
think Eric Steele has modeled nicely in his branch of viewletmanager),
but I think a centralized place to see what customizations are active
fulfills a separate but important need.
- Make it easier to export TTW customizations to the filesystem.
If I'm reading Martin's 'Pete and Andy Try Plone 4' post correctly,
this is basically the scenario he's promoting there, so I don't know
that I'm adding a whole lot. :) But I do think this is important,
based on my experience trying to teach 2 quite bright non-programmers
how to skin Plone 3. Eyes do seem to glaze over if you mention ZCML,
Generic Setup, or (heaven forbid) the Zope Component Architecture...
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