[Zope3-dev] Re: Last chance to comment on Simplify skinning

[Tonico Strasser]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
>> In CMF things are very easy to understand, because a layer is simply a
>> folder. I can explain that in five minutes to a template programmer.
> 
> Why does the template programmer need to know about layers?

Because in CMF, if you want to customize or create a skin, you need to 
know about the so called "layers".

>> Maybe this sounds a bit NAIVE, but would it be possible to make it like
>> in CMF?
> 
> The CMF approach is very limiting. The fact that a layer equals a
> physical location (a folder) led to every CMF-based product coming up
> with its own layer -- because there is no way to put stuff into existing
> layers, not even the default layer. Layers as they are in Zope 3 have
> stopped this senseless layer proliferation.
> 
> I find Zope 3's approach much simpler and much easier to explain than
> the CMF's approach. In Zope 3 (especially with my proposed changes in
> place), a layer is simply a label (read: marker interface) on the
> request. When we now look up pages and resources (e.g. images), we take
> the request into account and therefore inevitably that label. We will
> only find pages and resources associated (read: registered) for this
> label. Good news is that any page or resource can be associated for this
> label, we just have to remember to do that in their ZCML directive.
> 
> See, now I even explained this to a "template programmer", though I
> don't think he'd care.

Maybe I mean something different. I just want a folder in which I can 
drop all the files I want to customize (I love to customize), without 
registering something. Is this a layer? You're right, I don't care :)

Tonico