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

David Bain david.bain at alteroo.com
Thu Mar 6 17:33:50 UTC 2008


I'm advocating that the finished themes end up as filesystem based
themes, but to lower the bar for contributors we would accept TTW
themes.

So there would two roles involved, a larger group of TTW themers who
pass their zexps to a smaller group of Filesystem 'packagers'.

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:31 PM, vedaw <veda at onenw.org> wrote:
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>  I might be speaking a little out of line here, but I don't think we should go
>  in the direction of TTW theming. Filesystem development is cleaner, easy to
>  backup, even easier to share, etc. The whole point of having great tools
>  like DIYPS / paster / ZopeSkel / Deliverance is to make the theming process
>  easier, and I don't think going backwords and forcing people to work through
>  the ZMI is a wise move. Just my 2 cents.
>
>  - Veda
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>  David Bain-5 wrote:
>  >
>  > Some more thoughts on the Theming meme. I think that part of the
>  > process could be creating the themes initially through the web. This
>  > lowers the bar on who can create the theme. Then the TTW themes could
>  > be submitted as zexps which would be 'packaged' by product developers.
>  >
>  > If we create enough guidelines would could get some pretty good zexps
>  > out of designers.
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