I will concede that the old way was slightly easier from a UE point of view, but the point was to gain some leverage technically. We haven't lost any real functionality and the fact is that most people still just want their blog homepage to work the way it works by default, so you represent the exception, not the rule.
>From a technical point of view, allowing users to change their default weblog template was making things harder on us in various ways. The details are in the proposal that you mentioned. -- Allen On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 14:08, Sean Gilligan wrote: > That's what I ended up doing, but it seems to me to be less friendly > than the way it worked before. For two reasons: > > 1) I can't easily change the default template with a pop-up (I have to > edit one template, select all text, copy, edit another, paste, save) > > 2) It's nice to keep the default template unmodified for comparison > purposes or to switch back if I break something. > > I understand the benefit of clearly marking (and enforcing the presence > of) the required templates, but is there any harm in allowing the > default to be changed? > > -- Sean > > > Allen Gilliland wrote: > > You can still have a custom homepage, the only requirement is that you > > use the template named "Weblog" to represent the homepage for your > > blog. So login, edit template "Weblog", and do whatever you want with > > it. > > > > -- Allen > > > > > > On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 12:59, Sean Gilligan wrote: > >> I've noticed an issue (don't know whether to call it a change, bug, or > >> documentation discrepancy) in Roller 2.1. > >> > >> It seems you can no longer change the default "page" for your site from > >> Weblog.vm. It looks like this happened as part of the > >> "StandardizedTemplates" change: > >> http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Proposal_StandardizedTemplates > >> > >> This seems a step backwards in functionality because you can't have a > >> home page on your "website" that is not a Weblog page. It also requires > >> you to cut and paste between templates to make a "whole file" change > >> to your homepage. > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Sean > >> > >> > >> Documentation references: > >> > >> Section 4.1 (Weblog Settings): > >> Lists the "Page to be used as the homepage" setting (I put a ? here when > >> I submitted some edits recently) > >> > >> Section 5.1 (Weblog and day templates) of the manual says: > >> "Your weblog page is the main page of your web site, the one that is > >> specified as the default page in your Preferences:Settings page." > >> > > > > > > >
