[Framework-Team] plone.app.theming editor branch

[Yiorgis Gozadinos]

On Sep 7, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Yiorgis Gozadinos wrote:

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> On Sep 7, 2011, at 9:54 AM, Martin Aspeli wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'd really like some FWT input on http://svn.plone.org/svn/plone/plone.app.theming/branches/optilude-ace
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>> Basically, I'm trying to decide whether to put a bunch of effort into finishing it and getting it merged or not. I'd rather do that if it could make it into 4.2 final.
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>> The changes basically provide a Plone UI for something you can do in the ZMI (edit in-ZODB themes) with a nice UI. They are fully backwards compatible, of course.
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>> They introduce two new JavaScript components used on the editor page (only): ACE (http://ace.ajax.org/ - Mozilla license) and probably CoreFive FileManager (http://labs.corefive.com/projects/filemanager/ - MIT license).
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>> Changes still to be made:
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>> - Integrate file manager to allow basic management of files in a theme
>> - Allow any existing theme to be cloned as the starting point for a new theme
>> - UI improvements (input welcome)
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>> There's a thread on this on plone-dev where people are generally positive to the idea.
>> 
>> Martin
> 
> I guess it IS time we had a meeting after all...
> I can help with drafting that mail to plone-developers as well if Ross needs help so that we can get things going a bit...
> 

And just to avoid missunderstandings... I don't think that 4.2 is an option, but 4.3 is.

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Yiorgis Gozadinos
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