[Zope-CMF] Why skinning?

[Dieter Maurer]

Zope Newbie writes:
 > I'm confused by the concept of skinning a CMF site (that is, I'm confused that that's the 
 > way it's done, not confused by the way it works)- it seems like this breaks the very well 
 > thought out and elegant acquisition path inheritance that makes Zope what it is. It's 
 > obvious that it's desirable to have multiple non-hierarchical inheritance, but skinning 
 > seems clumsy by comparison, especially since it's "just another tool" and not some 
 > massive exception to the rule.
I like the skin tool:

  It is far easier to change the skins or have different skins according
  to user preferences that with plain acquisition.

  As you may know, the skintool uses acquisition for implementation
  of its service.


Dieter