Hello Mezzaniners and Cartridgers (??).
I have some very specific requirements for a project I'm working in. I
would like to have shop categories available to all visitors of the site
(they can browse all categories and see which products are included in
each, just a thumbnail and short
I think you could just add the existing product view (and any others) to
your urlpatterns, but wrapped in Django's login_required decorator - with
that you'd get all the fancy redirecting to login and back to the original
page.
I don't think there's a strong case for including it as a setting.