Add a way for fields to be displayed in the admin without being editable

Personally, I think it's a good idea too (something like readonly=True).

What's the word from the men upstairs?

Yes, this is useful. However, they should just be displayed inline (perhaps surrounded with some styling), without using an input widget with readonly="true" or anything like that. These are truly non-editable fields, not just temporarily disabled. So insert them into the form as text.

related issue discussed at:

http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thread/thread/1d7d8cb0662181c6

newforms-admin will obsolete this; you will, in theory, be able to write your own customized interface to do whatever you'd like, and in the current admin this goes against the explicitly-stated philosophy of the admin interface.

newforms-admin will not obsolete this. To have non editable fields in admin, even with newforms-admin, you have to inherit from the template and have some "if field in readonly_fields: skip" logic, thus hardcoding the list of readonly fields in a non-standard place, which is sub-optimal and doesn't scale. Having an option in ModelAdmin? like readonly_fields=... is the proper way to handle this.

No, really, you'll be able to write this in pure Python by using widget attributes when you set up the form. Plus, once again, it goes against the stated philosophy of the admin interface, which is that it's for actually administering data, not merely viewing it.