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 plone.theme
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This package lets you mark the request with a "layer" interface conditional
on the currently selected skin (theme) in the portal_skins tool.

Most Zope 3 "visual" directives, like <browser:page /> or <browser:viewlet />
accept a 'layer' attribute, which should point to an interface. Recall that a 
view is a multi-adapter on (context, request). Most views are registered 
so that the 'request' being adapted only needs to provide Interface. This
is equivalent to saying layer="*".

By applying a marker interface to the request, and registering a view or
viewlet with this interface as the adapted 'layer', we can override a more
general view, or make a viewlet that is only shown for a particular layer.

In the context of CMF and Plone, we'd like to tie the layer to the current
skin selection. We do that by name.

What you have to do
-------------------

First, you should create a marker interface:

    >>> from zope.interface import Interface
    >>> class IMyTheme(Interface):
    ...     """Marker interface for skins part of 'My Theme'
    ...     """
 
Then, register this as a theme layer in ZCML:
 
    <interface 
      interface=".interfaces.IMyTheme" 
      type="zope.publisher.interfaces.browser.IBrowserSkinType"
      name="My Theme"
      />
      
The title here must match the name of the theme/skin selection in 
portal_skins.

How it works
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Behind the scenes, the <interface /> registration marks IMyTheme with the
"IInterface" IThemelayer, and registers IMyTheme as a utility named "My Theme"
and providing IMyTheme.

We do something to this effect in tests/tests.zcml.

Let us define the "My Theme" skin selection:
 
    >>> from Products.CMFCore.utils import getToolByName
    >>> portal_skins = getToolByName(self.portal, 'portal_skins')
    >>> default_skin = portal_skins.getDefaultSkin()
    >>> skin_path = portal_skins._getSelections()[default_skin]
    >>> portal_skins.addSkinSelection('My Theme', skin_path)

In tests/tests.zcml we have registered two version of a view called 
@@layer-test-view. One, for the default skin layer, simply outputs "Default".
The other outputs "My Theme".

Before we turn on the skin, we will get the default view.
    
    >>> from Products.Five.testbrowser import Browser
    >>> browser = Browser()

    >>> browser.open(self.portal.absolute_url() + '/@@layer-test-view')
    >>> print browser.contents
    Default
    
However, if we turn the skin on, we should see the effects of the marker
interface being applied.

    >>> portal_skins.default_skin = 'My Theme'

    >>> browser.open(self.portal.absolute_url() + '/@@layer-test-view')
    >>> print browser.contents
    My Theme
    
And if we switch back:

    >>> portal_skins.default_skin = 'Plone Default'

    >>> browser.open(self.portal.absolute_url() + '/@@layer-test-view')
    >>> print browser.contents
    Default