[Zope] Managing default_browser from the ZMI

[Andy McKay]

Did you get anywhere here? I cant find the darn thing either. This should be
removed from changes.txt if it aint in.
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  Andy McKay
  www.agmweb.ca


----- Original Message -----
From: "Eron Lloyd" <elloyd@lancaster.lib.pa.us>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 8:15 PM
Subject: [Zope] Managing default_browser from the ZMI


To all who worked on the 2.6 release, great work! I'm just now starting to
process the changelog, and try to understand all the latest stuff. The one
thing that kind of caught my eye is that during the first alpha release,
there was an entry that stated:

- added browser_default hook to ZPublisher. This allows objects to
  specify the path to the default method that the publisher calls
  when the object is published. The default for objects not defining
  browser_default is still 'index_html' for bw compatibility.
  A ZMI configurable browser_default implementation has been added
  to ObjectManager. You can configure browser_default for OMs via
  a new "settings" management tab.

which maps to this 2.6 proposal explaining the intentions of
default_browser:

http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/ObjectTypeAssociationAndDeathToI
ndexHtml

This sounds like a very exciting feature, one that I hope didn't get lost in
the shuffle of getting 2.6 out the door. A quick glance at OFS.ObjectManager
and ZPublisher doesn't show any sign of this new behavior. Now, I haven't
digested the rest of the changelog or the source yet, but the release
announcement does list "Addition of a new default view setting ability" as
one of the new features. Was this deferred to 2.7 (which is completely
understandable)? Is help needed to bring it up to the Wiki proposal level?
Inquiring minds would love to know.

Still looking to bury index_html,

Eron
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