Re: Templates and customization

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

Oops.

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

Actually, no I didn't, though it's easy enough to add. I made it a 
yes/no choice, either no columns or three columns.

Partially this is because I'm something of an anti-preference bigot 
(preferences only when absolutely necessary), and partially because I 
didn't feel like experimenting with what Cheetah made of strings that 
should be numbers. (I still don't completely understand Cheetah's 
template language because I have not played with it much.)

> 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.

I'll work on that here sometime. I'm definately happier with it this 
way, even if it does cause a page expansion.