[Zope] Some ideas about the future of Zope products...

Dieter Maurer dieter@handshake.de
Tue, 27 Mar 2001 23:19:50 +0200 (CEST)


Philippe Jadin writes:
 > "What seems to be a pain when creating a product is the fact that you need
 > to provide your own User Interface. Why do I need to create a specific UI to
 > let the user update the title of my product? And if I want to have my user
 > edit the title trough ftp? Webdav? Do I have to take care of this as well?
 > We should easily agree that UI is not a part of the product, but a part of
 > Zope."
I recently learned GIMP (URL:http://www.gimp.org).

It was very nice to see, how script interfaces were build
from a very compact and easy parameter description.

Should not be too difficult to build.


However, I doubt very much, that many Zope users (!) will
be satisfied with such interfaces.
While the GIMP interfaces are for developers (and
therefore, there is not need for Corporate Identity
or extensive design) many Zope interfaces are for
consumers. Such interfaces will need much more
noise (in form of colors, logos, CI, SchnickSchnack,...)
and will suffer from a restriction to the bare functionality.


Dieter