The document discusses simplifying Plone by identifying areas that can be streamlined and improved. It outlines a process of asking questions, categorizing issues, evaluating options, and identifying specific things that could be "chopped" or removed. Key areas discussed include installation, branding, content types, behavior, templating, and non-content management tasks. The document envisions future improvements like unified portlets and viewlets, simpler content types defined through the web, increased use of adapters, and avoiding non-content tasks in Plone.

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7. A process Ask Categorise Evaluate Identify Chop!

9. Plone 4 Install Colours/logo Branding Content types Behaviour Integration Content & Settings Templating

12. Colours/logo Now Custom folder CSSManager DIYPloneStyle Problems Need to know Plone TTW/filesystem cliff ZMI is scary Future? Plone GUI: Front end to customisation registry

13. Branding Now Page template Skin layers Browser views Browser resources Viewlets Portlets Pain! Problems Too many ways No separation between customisation and theming Future? CSS should be enough Deliverance (NG?) plone.maintemplate?

14. Template Customisation Now Page template Skin layers Browser views Browser resources Viewlets Portlets Pain! Problems Z3 vs. portal_skins Portlets, views viewlets? 3 places: ZCML, Python, ZPT Future? GloWorm Unified portlets, viewlets, views Filesystem round-trip No ZCML

15. Content types Now ArchGenXML Archetypes plone.app.content Problems Need to learn Python Lots of boilerplate ArchGenXML product != custom product Future? Simple schema + view TTW Filesystem round-trip No boilerplate! Specialisation of labour

16. Behaviour Now Skin layer scripts Tools Methods in classes Adapters Problems Knowing where to put it Patterns Zope2 vs Zope3 Future? Adapters! Re-usable behaviours? Introspection Published Patterns ... but you shouldn’t need to do it as much!

17. Non-content management Now Archetypes Custom views Custom Python Problems Performance Consistency API fit Future? Don’t do it in Plone! WSGI SSO Indexing Deliverance Repoze Grok

19. Plone 4 Install Colours/logo Branding Content types Behaviour Integration Content & Settings Templating