[Zope3-dev] Site configuration UI (was New Software Space UI)

[Jim Fulton]

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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