[Zope3-dev] RFC: Simplify Skinning

Dominik Huber dominik.huber at perse.ch
Wed Dec 7 16:33:47 EST 2005


Martijn Faassen wrote:

> Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
>
>> Looking for your comments at http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/SimplifySkinning.
>> This is a follow-up proposal from 
>> http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope3-dev/444.
>>
>
> I rather like having the *concept* skin to talk about. While 
> implementation-wise things may become cleaner, being able to talk 
> about a skin is I think a bit more clear than if you talk about skin 
> layers.
>
> Similarly, I think it's a useful concept to talk to a layout developer 
> about 'layers' as a separate concept, to indicate to them that a layer 
> is not something necessarily directly exposed to an end user. I think 
> that this use case is less strong than the one for maintaining the 
> word 'skin', though.
>
> In various use cases, for instance Silva, there's a class of users 
> that just wants to select from a list of skins installed for their 
> site, and has no knowledge of how they're implemented. You don't want 
> to show all layers to them.
>
> It would therefore be nice to have a way to mark particular skin 
> layers as actual skins you want to expose to end-users, not just as 
> things useful as a building block. This is something we use the skin 
> mechanism for now, and that facility would, if I understand it 
> correctly, go away in this proposal.

+1 to all those

>
> Regards,
>
> Martijn
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