styling the subnavigation tree

[*I understand that this type of message is supposed to eventually
migrate over to plone-designs, but am sending to both right now as the
plone-users is quite a bit more active*]


I'm looking for advice about an elegant/flexible way to style the
sub-navigation tree.  The tree is rendered from the file
"/portal_skins/plone_portlets/portlet_navigation".  Within the script,
several visual elements are locally controlled including: 

	* folder icons (should be background-image in stylesheet)
	* link style is totally local (i.e. <a href="" style="padding-
left:0.5em;display:block">)
	* spacing (i.e. &nbsp; should be padding)

This strategy seems to fly in the face of all the good work Plone has
done controlling design elements using CSS, which might explain the
following comment a top the file:

	<!-- This code is *really* messed up, and will be replaced in
the next 	version of Plone. Do not try to make sense of this.
	-->

1) So, my first question would be ... what's the best guess time frame
for when this portlet is updated to be more Plone 2.0/CSS friendly?
Final release of v2.0?

2) In the meantime, would others recommend customizing the portlet
script by  stripping out the img, styling, and spacing and then
replacing it with a nice CSS defined style/div?      

3) And finally, will this approach upgrade gracefully?
 

Thanks for the insight!  Andrew



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