[TYPO3-team-templavoila] RFC: #12812: Allow external beLayoutFile

[Tolleiv.Nietsch]

Just something else which came to my mind in regards to the beLayout.

Obviously people like to change the layout of their page-module in 
several ways and due to the beLayout-feature that's possible in a more 
or less uncomfortable way.

Having a "beLayoutfile" is a good idea but maybe we could try to make a 
bigger step into that direction for TV 1.5.

I think (maybe for 1.5) we should try to extract the markup for the 
page-module (or at least for the content-area parts) into a template and 
a css file and provide a possibility to change both with some 
PageTSConfig (based on the choosen DS/TO combination).

I know that this is a big task and I know that Dmitry has legitimate 
doubts when it comes to big visual changes, but on the other hand we see 
tons of extensions XCLASSing the page-module classes just for the 
purpose of small markup-changes and in addition maintaining the 
pagemodule markup isn't really fun.

So I'd say we should keep the layout as it is but use template-files to 
render everything and provide some way to configure alternative 
template-files in addition.

What do you think? Maybe that task is too big?

Cheers,
Tolleiv

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