[Zope-CMF] Re: Permalinks in CMF 1.5 (CMFDefault)

Tres Seaver tseaver at zope.com
Mon Aug 23 18:26:44 EDT 2004


Gregoire Weber wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> 
>>Gregoire Weber wrote:
>>
>>>If this feature has to go into CMF 1.5 definitively and the current
>>>implementation in CMFDeafult isn't satisfying enough we should restart
>>>the discussion to get to a definitive decission how to do it (if we do it).
>>
>>Adding UID based aliases for content items introduced many problems. As long as these issues are not resolved I don't like to have permalinks in the 'Basic' skin.
> 
> 
> Ok, I could aggree. What about puting logic into a PyScript and
> circumvent the tal:on-error hack?
> 
> 
> 
>>But what about adding a second ZPT skin? I think the DTML skins should be removed after CMF 1.5. If people agree, we would anyway need another ZPT skin to show the skin switching feature. An 'Experimental' skin that shows some concepts that aren't mature or don't fit into the 'Basic' skin could be quite useful.
> 
> 
> Could CMFUrlSkinSwitcher be a candidate or a base of your 
> "skins switcher feature"?
> 
>    http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/collective/CMFUrlSkinSwitcher/
> 
>    Unfortuanately doesn't work fully in Stock CMF. Needs Plone 2.0.x login 
>    and logout script infrastructure.
> 
> 
> Another question: Who is currently *really* using the CMFDefault skin?

I'll bet $10USD that every Plone site in the world depends on at least 
some of the templates / controller scripts in those skins.

I have a number of non-Plone sites which make use of CMFDefault with a 
minimal amount of 'main_template' tweakery on top.

Tres.
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