[Plone-UI] [Plone-developers] Should we integrate ACE into p.a.theming?

[Jon Stahl]

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Martin Aspeli <optilude+lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 6 September 2011 04:36, Jon Stahl <jonstahl at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 3) I was surprised to not be able to edit existing third-party themes
>> I'd loaded into my test site.  I'd think that tweaking an existing
>> canned theme would be one of the most-requested use-cases for this
>> capability.
>
> You should able to edit anything that's in the ZODB (but not on the
> filesystem). Can you give me a reproducible test case?

I used buildout to install several of the recent Plone 4.1 Diazo
themes from http://plone.org/products.  The themes loaded up just fine
and I can activate them.

>> 4) Following on the previous point... I do think we should probably
>> try to do full create/delete/rename/upload (maybe not copy/move) file
>> support for at least images, CSS and JS.  Think if I want to use an
>> existing theme, but add my own logo.  :-)
>
> Agree. I just don't want to build the Finder into this. ;-) I wonder if
> there's some kind of widget or UI we can reuse.

A bit of googling turned up:
http://labs.corefive.com/projects/filemanager/ (used with CKEditor,
has python connector)
http://elrte.org/elfinder


:jon