[Framework-Team] Re: Move footer.pt and colophon.pt to viewlets?

[David Convent]

Martin Aspeli wrote:
> This is a bit late in the game, but I'd like to offer for consideration 
> whether we should move footer.pt and colophon.pt to viewlets?
> 
> Why?
> 
> Because custom skins very often want to hide these. With the (incredibly 
> cool) new viewlet manager from fschulze, we could make this very easy. 
> As it stands, you still need to customise both of these (and/or 
> main_template) to remove/change them.
> 
> Thoughts?
+1 (for what it worths, as I'm not in the framework team)
Maybe they are still there because they have to go through a deprecation 
mechanism, and will not be removed before Plone 3.5, but I still think 
that we would benefit a lot from having them moved to viewlets.

there is already a IPortalFooter viewlet manager, so it would just be a 
matter of registering those viewlets for it and define their order.

In addition to this, I wrote an answer to an email I got from Martin 
about the ordering definition of viewlets in viewlets.xml
I sent it to the devel list, should I forward here too?
> 
> Martin
>