[Zope] Re: V iewlet in rotterdam?

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Derek Richardson wrote:
> Zope 3.3
> 
> I want to add a viewlet to the rotterdam skin. I don't want to create my 
> own skin. is there an accepted way of doing this? I'm surprised that the 
> left sidebar in rotterdam doesn't appear to have  a viewlet manager. I 
> have been unable to find any declarations in zcml (grepped for 
> viewletManager through the entire zope source, didn't see anything 
> relevant).
> 
> It looks like rotterdam makes do with macros, instead of using viewlets. 
> Is there a reason for this? Seems like the left sidebar is perfect for a 
> manager, with a viewlet for navigation and another for the add menu.
> 
> I am writing a syndication (web feeds: Atom, RSS, etc) package for zope 
> and want to plug my viewlet for accessing feed links directly into 
> rotterdam. Perhaps this isn't the way to do it, but it seems to me that 
> a package like mine that provides general functionality shouldn't define 
> its own skin, but should be usable in other skins. Am I wrong?

Quite frankly yes :).

Like others mentioned, Rotterdam predates viewlets. But even then... who 
the @#$()&%*^ cares about Rotterdam. It's ugly, barely functional and 
quite confusing.

If you're writing a syndication package for Zope, the best thing this 
package can do is provide a nice and clear API to the syndication data. 
Then people can make use of this API in their own views, viewlets or 
whatever.


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