[Grok-dev] Menu system

[Christian Theune]

I had another thought after writing my last mail:

It comes down a bit to terminology:

- In GUIs, menu items are used to trigger a callback function. They
typically do not have state that shows they have been called.

- In web sites, we normally have something that is called "navigation".
There, navigation entries allow us to select a URL and see where we are
(by checking whether we're on the same page as the navigation entry
would bring us to)

I think current Zope 3 menus mix this up a bit so we have a problem
defining what they do in simple language. Maybe by splitting those
responsibilities up a bit, we can achieve two simple solutions for
different tasks?

(Obviously web applications are a mixture between normal web sites and
GUIs, but maybe this idea was helpful.)

Christian

Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Christian Theune wrote:
>> I just had an experience that makes me wonder whether we should abstain
>> from re-using the Zope 3 menu system for grok. It's implementation seems
>> nasty: The interfaces aren't completely described and it makes
>> assumptions that actions of a menu always apply to the currently
>> published object ... As Jim pointed out that menus should be taken as a
>> pattern and re-implemented by different projects, well, we have an
>> opportunity here ...
> 
> I'd be happy to make something new & simple for this. Do you have ideas
> for simple powerful menu systems?
> 
> We should figure out how this project connects to grok; we could have a
> z3c.menu and then use this from grok (as a dependency), or make it be
> part of grok directly..
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Martijn
> 

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