[Product-Developers] Re: Thoughts on championing OOTB themes

[David Bain]

Just dropping in an additional couple cents.
Deliverance is easier (tm). It actually reduces the skinning learning
curve, well almost eliminates it. but all the kinks aren't out of it
yet.

So for now let's get this OOTB thing going.


On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Tim Knapp <duffyd at kokorice.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 14:00 -0800, vedaw wrote:
>  > Hey Paul,
>  >
>  > I'm all in favor of supporting Deliverance, I just don't want to get bogged
>  > down in people having to learn how to use it just so that we can get themes
>  > to ship with Plone. That said, if there's someone on the list who would like
>  > to volunteer as a guinea pig on this, that's totally fine by me.
>
>  I'm happy to be a guinea pig :) I've actually already done some hacking
>  around with Deliverance and in all honesty it isn't very difficult to
>  use. Put it this way, a lot easier to use than learning Plone 3
>  skinning :) Only issue is, AFAICT you've gotta be using plone in a wsgi
>  pipeline and last I heard that isn't 100% supported on all plone 3.0.x
>  releases at this stage (Plone + friends-eggification being one hurdle).
>
>  -Tim
>
>
>  >  Let me
>  > finish getting the OpenPlans site up so we can start laying down some
>  > objectives. I'd love to include Deliverance as a side part of this project.
>  >
>  > Thanks!
>  >
>  >
>  > Paul Everitt-3 wrote:
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > 4) "Embrace Deliverance" was part of the *strategy* summit, which was
>  > > focused on longer-term, more substantial fixes.  Thus,  Veda's effort
>  > > (and this thread) are still useful for near-term attention.
>  > >
>  > > 4) David is right...if Deliverance is done right, then thousands of
>  > > themes should be immediately.
>  > >
>  > > 5) Tom's "barebones" skin is indeed an activity.  Tres and I started on
>  > > a "CMFXHTML" skin for CMF to explore ideas on this.  It's focused on
>  > > packing the maximum of semantics into the HTML and the minimum of
>  > > chrome/theme.
>  > >
>  > >
>  >
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