[Zope3-dev] a plan for widgets?

[Roger Ineichen]

Hi Martijn

> 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!

+1

> * 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.

I guess that would be the important part. (simplify the implementation)

> * 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.

Yes, tell me what's your plan and I try to find some time to help you.

btw,
didn't Gary Poster start a widget refactoring?

> Regards,
> 
> Martijn

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