Moving Collection settings to ZMI (was: The big 3.0)
Alexander Limi <
limi@...>
2007-05-16 19:13:31 GMT
Disclaimer: This mail has been sitting around in my email inbox for a
while, and I wanted to answer without sounding rude, so I had to let it
cool down for a while. Bear with me, hopefully I won't ruffle any
feathers. It's a bit sharp, but not intended as anything else than
matching the tone of the original. ;)
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:20:22 -0700, whit morriss
<d.w.morriss@...> wrote:
> the argument that we are now using the zmi by design really rings hollow
> for me. Though I strongly support generalizes ui that works with or
> without plone, I'm not sure designing in any more context switches into
> plone is at all a good idea. Let's keep people in the application or on
> filesystem, not rummaging though our hot nineties legacy layer.
There's a very large amount of settings that fit perfectly well in the
middle category, explained below. And your ad hominem (well, on Zope 2 ;)
attacks make you come across as not arguing the case, but arguing for
taste. Which I'm fine with, just don't present it as something that it's
not. :)
The reason why this mail pisses me off slightly is that it (rightly or
wrongly) assumes that the current work done by Hanno and all the others
helping out at the sprint in Baarn doesn't change anything. There's a
*major* difference between 2.5 — which has a limited set of configuration
switches exposed — and 3.0, which took a step back and identified pretty
much *all* the common questions from the lists and the FAQs we get and
made these settings available in the Plone control panel.
These panels are not arbitrarily chosen, they are carefully selected and
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