[Zope3-dev] Site configuration UI (was New Software Space UI)
Jim Fulton
jim at zope.com
Mon Jan 10 12:14:55 EST 2005
Paul Everitt wrote:
>
> (Changing the thread title to focus on one part of the problem.)
>
> At EuroPython I took some notes from the afternoon session we spent with
> a couple of site managers:
>
> http://www.zope-europe.org/articles/200501/z3scripternotes
>
> After that, I took some notes which I rewrote based on this discussion
> (primarily, pulling out the site developer stuff):
>
> http://www.zope-europe.org/articles/200501/zope3devdiscussion
>
> I need to put more info there, but I'll likely move it to the zope3 wiki
> if it is worth continuing??
>
> Finally, I realized that CMF and Plone (perhaps CPS too, need to ask
> Florent) have facilities for TTW site configuration. I made a 3.4 Mb
> narrated Flash movie as a tour of the Plone UI for site management:
>
>
> http://zea.zope-europe.org/~paul/movies/z3siteman/z3siteman_media/z3siteman.swf
>
>
> Some notes on this narrated tour:
>
> 1) The Plone UI makes it look like you're installing Zope products, but
> that's not the case. The CMF has a facility for taking an installed
> Zope product and wiring it into a local site. I think that's what Zope
> 3 wants also for activation vs. installation (though if TTW packages
> work out, you might actually be installing packages?)
I need to ponder this some. We don't really want TTW packages.
We *do* want file-system defined packages that can be used locally.
> 2) IMO the most useful things to glean:
>
> a. A global action labelled "plone setup" that doesn't talk about
> software engineering terms. It's the entry point to configuration and
> is always visible for site managers. Makes it easy to document and train.
>
> b. The control panel is a series of items that talk about what they do,
> rather than what they are (tool, adapter, utility, whatever). For the
> most part, these words don't appear in the UI.
>
> c. It's pretty easy for package developers to plug into this via a
> configlet system (as shown in the Kupu part).
I think this is fantastic! I'd like to use as much of this as
we can.
Jim
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