[Zope3-dev] RFC: Simplify Skinning Redux

[Stephan Richter]

On Monday 12 December 2005 16:29, Dominik Huber wrote:
> 1. The brand *skin* and *layer* are fairly common and they are
> reflecting two logical uses cases. At a first glance the usage for a
> layer type is not given, but the layer concept is still interesting to
> build modular skins. The layer audience could be the developers which
> like to share layer specific informations. IMO an use case for an
> Browser Layer Names utility could be a corresponding
> online-documentation within the api-doc. I would suggest to register the
> layers like skins using a ILayerBrowserType interface:
>
> <interface
>           interface=".interfaces.I18NFeatures"
>           type="zope.publisher.interfaces.browser.IBrowserLayerType"
>           />
>
>
> 2. I liked the naming ISkinType and ILayerType much more (instead of
> IBrowserSkinType/ IBrowserLayerType), because this browser-specific
> differentiation is already given by the package hierarchy and those
> ILongCamelCaseWordingsThatTriesToExplainEverything are hard to type and
> at the end they confuse newcomers even more than the simple ones. Please
> keep the naming also simple and stupid like the skinning simplification
> itself  :)
Two good points I agree with. I wanted to write a similar response as 1., but 
did not have a good argument. Dominik just gave it. I think it is important
to keep a registry of all layers, especially for TTW development, an area I 
really want to put some effort in for 3.3.

Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
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