[Phpslash-devel] Re: [minor annoyance in new release

[Joe S. <joe...@us...>]

note:  Moved to -devel list.

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 10:09:01AM -0500, Luis M wrote:
> 
> I found this to be a little annoyance which might or might not be a bug. The 
> templates under $PATH/templates/en/ are only offer under the "skin" block to 
> the browsers who have English languages (en). Thus if you, say, have a 
> $PATH/fr/skin1 directory for the french language (and the same for other 
> languages) only that skin is offer to french browsers.

Yes, I think I follow this now.  This is one reason you don't want to 
cache the skin block.  Another is you get links to articles, etc.

This is the designed behavior.

> Since the text for the whole site gets translated regardless of the skin 
> being used, I think it would make more sense to offer all templates from a 
> given directory (or have a folder which is the default language for all 
> other -- I think this is what "en" is). 

Uh, some templates contain text that is not translated - the submission 
form, login form, poll results, etc.

> Either that or users will have to 
> create a directory in e/a directory for the language they want to support 
> and put a "skin.ini" file whose skin.parent is the default language for the 
> given site.

Yes.  Except you can't refer back to the default language's skin 
(yet, maybe?) in the skin.ini. 

> I know that modifying the algorithm for the "skin" blocktype could easily 
> yield to recurring thru a list of duplicated directories, so a solution 
> should involved default-ing to just one directory and not to all other 
> languages to look for template directories that are not present in the 
> current language... (confusing uh, just read this paragraph again...).
> 
> I hope that this makes sense to you guys out there (Joe?).
> 

I think I understood after reading it a few times :)

Setting the skin using the user accounts and preferences hopefully will 
be the preferred method to choose skins.  However, I have done no testing 
on what skins are available after a language change.  
I think this might be broken.

later,

Joe

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