[Zope-CMF] Re: Plone Speed

[Tres Seaver]

On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 06:21, Florent Guillaume wrote:
> Chris Withers  <chrisw@nipltd.com> wrote:
> > This is not what the skins tool was designed for. The skins tool was
> > designed to let the user select different looks & feels. Hence the
> > ordering/stacking/onion skin effect which is not doing you any favours
> > in your use of it...
> 
> The skins tools seems also design so that each third-party CMF product
> can add its specific skin layer. At least that's how a number of them do
> it.

Correct.  Factoring the skins into "coherent" layers makes selective
customization possible, as well;  if you "flatten" the hierarchy (the
extreme case would be to customize *all* methods into 'custom', and then
have a skin which uses only 'custom'), you lose many of the benefits of
skins.

Chris, I think you may need to back up your claims that the skins tool
is at fault here with a repeatable experiment;  *I* believe the "smoking
gun" lies elsewhere (e.g., inside the actions tool).

Tres.
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