[Zope] Re: V iewlet in rotterdam?
Philipp von Weitershausen
philipp at weitershausen.de
Sat Mar 24 05:37:14 EDT 2007
Derek Richardson wrote:
> Zope 3.3
>
> I want to add a viewlet to the rotterdam skin. I don't want to create my
> own skin. is there an accepted way of doing this? I'm surprised that the
> left sidebar in rotterdam doesn't appear to have a viewlet manager. I
> have been unable to find any declarations in zcml (grepped for
> viewletManager through the entire zope source, didn't see anything
> relevant).
>
> It looks like rotterdam makes do with macros, instead of using viewlets.
> Is there a reason for this? Seems like the left sidebar is perfect for a
> manager, with a viewlet for navigation and another for the add menu.
>
> I am writing a syndication (web feeds: Atom, RSS, etc) package for zope
> and want to plug my viewlet for accessing feed links directly into
> rotterdam. Perhaps this isn't the way to do it, but it seems to me that
> a package like mine that provides general functionality shouldn't define
> its own skin, but should be usable in other skins. Am I wrong?
Quite frankly yes :).
Like others mentioned, Rotterdam predates viewlets. But even then... who
the @#$()&%*^ cares about Rotterdam. It's ugly, barely functional and
quite confusing.
If you're writing a syndication package for Zope, the best thing this
package can do is provide a nice and clear API to the syndication data.
Then people can make use of this API in their own views, viewlets or
whatever.
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