Re: Templates and customization

Hi!

> The specific changes I made are in PreferencesTools.py and 
> WeblogTemplate.tmpl, no *Rendering changes were necessary,
fortunately. 

Ah, you are talking about the list of categories on the desktop. That
wasn't clear to me from your first post.

Ok, with the desktop things are a bit different. I think it would be ok
to have stuff in the template, so people can customize it if they want
to, but use macros and helper stuff from python code.

I assume you made the number of columns for the categories customizable
in the preferences?

> (And for organizing something into three columns, "<table>" is the 
> correct solution anyhow, even on an otherwise pure-CSS site. ;-) )

Oh, three-column-layouts can be made with just CSS quite easily. But
since w3m doesn't support CSS layout, I need tables at least in the
desktop view.

> So I guess my question would be, which would you prefer right now, a 
> patch that allows you to have your categories rendered in columns
purely 
> in Cheetah, or a patch that moves category rendering into Nuggets, 
> leaves relevant CSS hooks, and changes the *.tmpl files to use the 
> nugget? Another way of looking at it is "Do you want to move up that 

I'd say change the template, create some code that does the tabular
layout (sounds like a macro that takes a list of checkboxes and does a
tabular layout - this could be reused in other cases) and use that in
the template. Sure, could be done with a nugget, but I think if it's
just some code to render checkboxes in tabular form, I don't think it's
worth to be put in a nugget, as I don't think anybody will ever change
that code later on.

The desktop mostly uses templates and stuff like that because it's
easier to write the HTML code that way than to integrate it into the
Python code. It's not because of much need for configuration - it's the
desktop, there might be the need to put in hooks and stuff like that,
but I don't think it really needs to be reconfigured as much as the
rendering. The rendering, on the other hand, is what other people see
and that needs as much ways of tweaking as possible ;-)

bye, Georg