[Zope-CMF] Idea relating to skins

seb bacon seb@jamkit.com
Mon, 25 Jun 2001 18:36:48 +0100


I think this is an excellent idea.

While we're on the subject, I've been thinking it would be nice to
restrict users access to skins based on role / permissions.

seb

* Chris Withers <chrisw@nipltd.com> [010625 17:58]:
> Hello :-)
> 
> A thought just occured to me... yes, only the one and I'm very grateful, doesn't
> happen often you know ;-)
> 
> Anyway, what if, as well as layers, you could specify other skins in skin
> definitions?
> 
> For example, you could have:
> 
> Basic        custom, content, generic, control, Images
> No CSS       no_css, Basic
> Nouvell      nouvelle, Basic
> 
> I think this would reduce the problem of having to change a whole plethora of
> Skin definitions when you introduce a new layer in between, say, control and
> Images. What do other people think?
> 
> However, with the above in mind, it might be useful to say which skins are user
> selectable, eg:
> 
> Name       User Selectable      Layers
> Base       No                   generic, control, Images
> Default    No                   content, Base
> Topic      No                   content, Topic, Base
> Basic      Yes                  custom, Default
> No CSS     Yes                  no_css, Basic
> Nouvell    Yes                  nouvelle, Basic
> 
> What do people think?
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Chris
> 
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