[drupal-devel] [task] Remove theme_pager_detail()

[Jeremy]

Issue status update for 
http://drupal.org/node/27980
Post a follow up: 
http://drupal.org/project/comments/add/27980

 Project:      Drupal
 Version:      cvs
 Component:    base system
 Category:     tasks
 Priority:     normal
 Assigned to:  drumm
 Reported by:  drumm
 Updated by:   Jeremy at kerneltrap.org
 Status:       patch (ready to be committed)

Prior to comitting this patch we had a couple extra lines of code in
pager.inc, and a completely alternative possibililty for displaying a
pager.  For negligible memory, and negligible maintenance cost we had
choices for custom themes and modules.


Now there is only one type of pager available with Drupal.


Sure, someone could write this fuction themselves, but realistically
it's just complex enough that very would ever bother to do so.


I'm disappointed to see this code removed, as I see no gain, only loss.




Jeremy at kerneltrap.org



Previous comments:
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Mon, 01 Aug 2005 20:18:04 +0000 : drumm

This themeable function is not used in core. It is used once in contrib.
The author of that module is okay with removing it.




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Mon, 01 Aug 2005 22:25:10 +0000 : Jeremy at kerneltrap.org

The idea is to make it available for use in themes, modules, etc, to
design custom pagers.  Why exactly do you need to remove it?




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Tue, 02 Aug 2005 03:07:38 +0000 : moshe weitzman

i agree with jeremy. can't we find more meaningful patches than ones
which strip themeability. I can't evaluate the patch because I don't
see a file. maybe thats a bug, or drumm just forgot.


not everyone uses our google ripoff pager. i have customized this in
the past for clients. you can't look at contributed themes and then
conclude that a theme function is not used.




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Tue, 02 Aug 2005 11:24:01 +0000 : Bèr Kessels

another -1. This theme function was added to allow better themeing of
teh pager. Before this function we could only go for the standard
pager, now we can theme it much nicer.




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Tue, 02 Aug 2005 17:44:27 +0000 : drumm

Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/pager.inc.diff (1.43 KB)

Not sure what happened with the patch file.


This is code that isn't used anywhere but is loaded for every page view
anyway. It could live in contrib or in some documentation instead.




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Wed, 03 Aug 2005 16:11:01 +0000 : Dries

I'm with Neil here.  This function is not called anywhere, hence it is
dead code -- at least for core and contrib.  If you need this function,
you can still implement it elsewhere (eg. in your theme).




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Mon, 08 Aug 2005 03:04:34 +0000 : moshe weitzman

ok, this patch makes sense now. this is simply unused code.




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Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:50:30 +0000 : Dries

Committed to HEAD.  Thanks.