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

[Wichert Akkerman]

Previously David Convent wrote:
> 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.

Or as soon as you touch main_template, or as soon as you change an edit
view, or probably a few other things. 

Wichert.

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