+1 (obviously non-binding :-) ...). I've been going through the exercise of implementing a new UI template for our internal blogs and this has definitely come up as an issue. I would caution, however, against going too far with breaking things out.
- James Allen Gilliland wrote: > new 4.0 proposal up to support to individual templates by action ... > > http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/Proposal+Individual+Templates+by+Action > > > Abstract: > This is a proposal to support a way to define individual or separate > template files for various weblog page actions. Actions would be things > like search results page (<weblog>/search) or tags index page > (<weblog>/tags/). > > Currently Roller does all of its page rendering via a single template, > the Weblog template, and quite frankly that is just not good enough. > Blogs have many pages which will often times have fairly different > designs and Roller should support that. A great example is the search > results page which typically has a much different layout and design than > a blog homepage and yet Roller doesn't make it easy to accomplish that. > It is the goal of this proposal to make it possible for users to have > individual templates to control the page designs for various weblog > actions. > > please review and comment. > > -- Allen >