[Zope-CMF] Why skinning?

[Zope Newbie]

1/18/2002 2:18:48 PM, Dieter Maurer <dieter@handshake.de> wrote:
>I like the skin tool:
>
>  It is far easier to change the skins or have different skins according
>  to user preferences that with plain acquisition.

Not really - you could have skin folders that use the standard acquisition hierarchy, then 
let each user choose their starting point within the hierarchy for which skin they wanted to 
use. The random "some stuff is in this folder, some is in this other folder, oh, and some 
things are way over here" approach used currently seems like it would make it 
exponentially harder to manage skins and figure out what's actually in each one, and it 
seems like a concious design decision to give up on hierarchical acquisition.

>  As you may know, the skintool uses acquisition for implementation
>  of its service.

How is that possible, since you have to provide an explicit list of objects in the acquisition 
path for a new skin?