[Zope] New PropertyManager

[Casey Duncan]

Thomas Guettler wrote:
> Thomas Guettler wrote:
> 
>> I would like to add some things to the PropertyManager:
>>
>> 1. mulitple selections should be a list of check-boxes. I don't like
>> the ctrl-click method in the select-box.
>>
>> 2. Would be nice if each property has a second name, which is used
>> for displaying it to the user. This is neccesarry if you have 
>> properties with
>> umlauts.
> 
> 
> Would be nice to have a new data type, too: dates
> 
> thomas

If you want to propose new features to Zope, this is not a good place 
because your ideas will just get lost in the shuffle. Go to the fishbowl 
on dev.zope.org and write it up and tell ppl about it on the zope-dev 
mailing list.

Proposals are also infinitely more credible if the author is willing to 
do the implementation. Wish lists, although interesting, usually don't 
get very far without a lot of lobbying.

Specifically, these PropertyManager proposals, although useful, point at 
an overall lack of flexibility in the system. Rather than "I want 
property type X", I might suggest an approach like "I want property 
sheets to have extensible types" might get farther. Zope 3 will most 
certainly be an opportunity to look at this completely fresh. It doesn't 
take a long look at the current PropertyManager code, to see that it 
needs an overhaul 8^).

-Casey