Alexander Limi wrote:
> just saying that you're trying to use LinguaPlone for
something it has
> not been designed to do 
Yes, that already seemed clear
But for a few sites we're currently deploying (and lacking
time/resources to prepare a full alternative where fallback
would be
more natural) changing a few content listing interfaces to
also show
'content which has not been translated to the current
language' still
seems a "lesser evil" (even if it ends up
requiring ugly internal hacks)
when compared to the trick of faking language-neutrality in
multiple-language folders (such as i18nfolder): people
editing content
will still be able to take advantage of LP, simply learning
how to
manage content in the "LinguaPlone way" without
a kludgy additional rule
like "remember to leave untranslated documents as
language-neutral!".
In any case, even genuine language-neutral objects, although
not
rejected by the "LinguaPlone way", seem a bit
hard to fully reconcile
with it: a hack similar to the one I intended for fallback
seems
necessary to properly support language-neutral objects
contained in
non-language-neutral folders, making them visible in
navigation trees
and (public) folder content listings under all translations
of their
container folder [1]. This may well be expected by end
users/readers
(even if, for consistency with the "LP way", and
lacking something like
a symbolic link, the object is only seen in a single
'real' place when
using content admin listings/webdav/ftp).
Best regards
J Esteves
[1] Not trouble-free of course: one immediately has to face
the
possibility of annoying id collisions with objects in the
other,
translated, folders, so the nav link could not in general
point to a
"ghost object" with a similar id in the other
folder; it would have
instead to point to the 'real' language-neutral object in
its original
container folder, whatever its language. And so on. Nasty
stuff...
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