[Zope3-dev] a plan for widgets?

[Martijn Faassen]

Hi there,

Let's come up with a plan for widgets. We have a very nice widget system 
in Zope 3, but it's not perfect. There are a bunch of things that could 
be improved:

* the widgets are hanging out in dusty zope.app.form.browser. Perhaps 
it's time to move them into zope.widget? Not even in a browser 
subdirectory - after all, zope.widget is all about the browser!

* there are various widget registrations missing. We should make sure to 
register them.

* Jim tells me "Don't look at SimpleInputWidget, it's too complicated". 
This sounds wrong and zope2-like; something called Simple that's too 
complicated. We need to figure out how to make that story less complicated.

* sources and terms are nice, but we should at least provide some basic 
sources and register some basic terms for them; that bit is completely 
missing in Zope 3 right now. People should be able to at make a simple 
drop-down widget happen without having to figure out how to tie all 
these components together - they should just import and use the right 
source, perhaps import, use, and register the right term, and there they go.

* there are widgets missing. Lots of people have useful widgets. 
Extensions with more widgets are very nice, but let's provide lots of 
useful widgets in zope.widget, too.

Are people interested in developing a plan to tackle these issues? If 
some of us chip in we may get somewhere.

Regards,

Martijn