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

[David Convent]

Alexander Limi wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:18:23 -0700, Martin Aspeli  
> <optilude at gmx.net> 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?
> 
> 
> I thought this was already the case, but you're right — it's not, I 
> just  checked. Right now, there is a viewlet manager showing a footer 
> viewlet,  but the footer isn't actually inside of it. I'd consider this 
> a bug, not a  new feature. :)
> 
> Related, I'm also rethinking how to do the document actions to make 
> sure  it's possible to have a product that works and looks right on both 
> 2.5 and  3.0.
As soon as your customizations involve using the viewlets machinery, 
having a theme compatible with both Plone 2.5 and Plone 3.0 is impossible.

  At the moment, you will get duplication and/or the new
> document  actions in the wrong location, depending on how you look at it.
>