I like decorators and have found them useful for my site for the last couple of years. I'm assuming there will be a similar feature if they're eliminated? I hope I don't have to revert to using some include header/footer/menu mechanism.
Matt On 7/5/07, Elias Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
+1 Dave wrote: > +1 on killing decorators (and finishing 4.0 work) - Dave > > > On 7/5/07, Allen Gilliland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Anyone else have comments on this? I am trying to finish up 4.0 work so >> I'd like to get this resolved in the next day or two. >> >> -- Allen >> >> >> Dave Levy wrote: >> > 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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