#6: Merge with, rather than overriding, Plone's default portlets
- Proposed by
- wiggy
- Seconded by
- bitmonk
- Proposal type
- User interface
- Assigned to release
- Repository branch
- trunk
- State
- draft
Motivation
Currently, Quills weblogs entirely override the left_slots and right_slots, making it tedious to mix in Quills' portlets with whatever is available on the rest of the site when desired.
Assumptions
The goal is for Quills not to impose a preference or policy decision as part of the core application design, rather it should be adaptable to various needs based on its' stated goal of serving single users as well as large multi-user, multi-blog environments.
Proposal
We should be able to push our portlets into the slots without overriding entirely, and to control this behaviour with a per-blog setting.
Implementation
We should be able to use a ComputedAttribute for each of left_slots and right_slots for a weblog, and optionally inherit values from our container.
Risks
Perhaps there are performance or maintainability considerations.
Participants
Tim Hicks
Justin Ryan