I have no idea what these are; it seems that not all themes use them.
I agree with you're assertions and conclusions
Allen Gilliland wrote:
I have a couple gotchas happening in the theme code related to
decorators and in order to fix them I need to have a better idea of
what we want to do with the decorator templates long term.
My opinion is that we should be EOLing them and trying to phase them
out. IMO the decorator stuff is confusing for users and at the end of
the day the same thing can be accomplished using #includeTemplate()
calls which are easier for users to understand.
Anyone else have strong opinions about this?
If we want to keep decorators around then we are going to have to
provide better support for them, meaning a way to enable/disable
decorating of templates via the UI as well as the ability to specify
templates that should be decorated in theme descriptors. Up until now
the decorators have largely been an under the hood feature (a.k.a a
hack) that wasn't really publicized much and we've never offered users
any real control over the decorating process. So deprecating it
should be quite safe.
-- Allen
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