Could we add response.masthead?

[Alan Etkin]

I don't want to modify the default layout just for changing the header (masthead) for the scaffolding app. I wonder if it's convenient to add a response.masthead to menu.py and layout.html, so a user, for example me :), would be allowed to easily customize it. If this is not going to be useful for a general use case, then please ignore it.

In line 97 of layout.html
  {{=response.masthead or response.title or request.application}}

In line 7 of menu.py
  response.masthead = None

[Massimo Di Pierro]

Isn't that what title is for?

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[Alan Etkin]

Isn't that what title is for?

The trunk version of the layout.html file has

response.title or request.application

in two parts of the page:
once for the <title> tag, and after in the body of the page (masthead's h4 element)

As Paolo said, sometimes you want to differentiate the two elements. Suppose someone wants an img to be shown in masthead, if you set response.title to IMG(...), then the string output of the html element will be shown as page title. AFAIK there's no way of solving this unless you change the layout.html file (which is not that terrible, of course).

[pbreit]

If you want to differentiate, I say edit it yourself. The welcome app is just a set of sensible defaults which I think "response.title or request.application" is.