--On 19 June 2006 11:31:30 +0100 Ian Eiloart iane@sussex.ac.uk wrote:
--On 16 June 2006 13:36:14 -0400 Barry Warsaw barry@python.org wrote:
c) templates for lists. We have four or five basic list styles(announce/discussion with open/closed membership and umbrella lists). When we create a list, I'd like to be able to specify there and then which style to use. Such a feature would rely on having a set of files on the server that hold the relevant list settings. The UI would simply let me pick which style to apply. The task here is not to design the templates, but to enable their easy application.
+1 I did a little experimentation with this in the mm3 branch and I don't think the basic mechanisms are that difficult. The UI is the challenge (i.e. how do you set up a style?).
Well, in our case, the styles would be site-wide and set up only once. We don't need a UI to set up the styles, because we've already created them. Our current workflow is 1. Create a list through the UI 2. Shell in to the list server 3. Run a script which applies the style to the list.
I'd just like to avoid 2. and 3. by having some UI to apply the style on creation - like the subethaedit example.
Sorry, I wasn't paying attention there. Someone sent me this link, http://subetha.tigris.org/images/list_create.png and in my caffeine-deprived haze I didn't notice (a) this is a rival email list project not the subethaedit text editor, and (b) they hadn't posted to the list.
I guess it would be nice for the CGI to look for a style file at -say- /mailman/styles/foo.style and a text description at /mailman/styles/foo.description - or to extract the description from the style file.
-- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex