[Grok-dev] Re: Skinning/themeing

Martijn Faassen faassen at startifact.com
Sat May 19 16:42:39 EDT 2007


Martin Aspeli wrote:
> Kevin Smith wrote:
[snip]
>> The viewlets are automatically ordered by view name. 
> 
> That to me is bad convention-over-configuration. It's fine if names of 
> things are used to find related things (view name -> template name). 
> Having to artificially constrain names to get the results you want is 
> really frustrating though. I *hate* aesthetically un-appealing code. It 
> makes me think of Visual Basic for Applications. :-(

I agree with Martin here; I think ordering by view name is not very 
beneficial. I'd prefer a default ordering by definition order in a 
module (but as I wrote just now, we can't do that yet). An 'order' 
directive also seems to be, um, in order.

Regards,

Martijn



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