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Seems to be consensus that we don't want the clunky preferences channel - are there resources available for a large effort on a 'best of breed' layout manager? Quite a few alternatives to the current mechanism - drag and drop a la Google, or simple left, right up and down a la Yahoo.
Majority of end-user customisation at the skin level, or removing channels. Should the majority of effort not go into making it easier to push content at users, rather than end-user customisation? since use of the portal is often a secondary goal for many people.
AL - quite a few people using Aggregated Layouts - a couple using simple layouts
. Lot of interest in terms of Distributed Layouts - supposed to be a simpler migratation path to DLM than ALM from simple layouts. Also DLM is a bit more flexible.
Problems pushing layout fragments via AL damaging layouts if the user is logged in. Memorial running push fragments when the portal is down.
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