[Moin-devel] Skins...

[Juergen Hermann]

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 09:37:51 -0800 (PST), Tim Bird wrote:

>I have been wanting to do a similar system for MoinMoin templates,
>including putting the template itself on a special MoinMoin page
>(or maybe as part of a user's preferences) so it could be customized
>online.

This complicates things in various ways (security, complexity, 
performance), although it's of course a nice thing to have.

>Or, to be even more fancy, you can create a class that looks like
>a dictionary and on calls to the the __getitem__ function dynamically
>generate on the fly whatever content is requested

This is one of the things I had in mind.

>I'm not sure how all this would work with regards to XML output,
>so I've hesitated to dive into it.

It's rather unrelated, because only the web UI will be skinnable.

>Please let me know your comments.  If Juergen is already working 
>on skins I don't want to start a big project like this.  (I'm 
>not promising anything - I've been thinking about this for months
>and haven't found the time to do it, so there's no telling if I'll
>get to this soon or not.)

Well, I wanted this for a long time too, and failed for the same reasons 
so far. ;)

Whatever you do, before anyone starts such a big task, coordinate with 
me, otherwise we maybe waste efforts because of duplicate work.


Ciao, Jürgen