It became a HowTo http://www.zope.org/Members/peterbe/skintheZMI ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Bengtsson" <mail@peterbe.com> To: "Jason Byron" <jason_zope@yahoo.com> Cc: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 9:08 AM Subject: Re: [Zope] zope interface suggestion
I disagree. Then there would be two ways to move around objects. With the links and with buttons. This would be bad usability with all the confusion and the ZMI would be more cluttered.
I suggest that you think of a skin to do this. If you are the only one using the Zope, you can apply this hotfix:
- create a folder in the Products directory called: "ZMIHotfix1" - in that folder copy lib/python/OFS/dtml/main.dtml and do the changes to that file. - now create a file called __init__.py and do the following:
# HotFix 1 # change the main.dtml ZMI template
from OFS.ObjectManager import ObjectManager from Globals import DTMLFile ObjectManager.manage_main = DTMLFile('main', globals())
Restart Zope and if you've made changes to main.dtml, they should show up automatically.
To debug this, run Zope with -D and you can change the ZMIHotFix1/main.dtml and the interfaces changes with a simple refresh.
This can probably be extended using cookies or something so that if you share the Zope with a newbie, you can get different interface. But then my tip might not be completely the right.
I think I'll now put this into HowTo or a Tip on zope.org if it's working.
Peter
Why don't we add three single letter links to each line of the objects listed in zope's web interface?
Say 'R', for Rename 'C/P' for Copy and Paste , and 'D' for Delete.
We could add it between the Name and the Size.
It could simply look like: R C/P D
That sure would make things quicker.
Anyone want a new project? :)
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