Re: [Epiphany] Security prompt dialogs

[Robert Marcano <robert marcanoonline com>]

On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 17:06, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> As someone may know we are sharing with galeon the code to create
> mozilla security prompt dialogs. Though they have now introduced a
> custom, hig compliant dialog class.
> Personally I think following them on that way would be a very bad idea,
> gal and eel teaches. Introducing helpers for something that need to be
> solved at an higher level later (definately gtk IHMO), is a bad idea
> because getting rid of helpers is hard once you introduced them. Also
> it's scary to think that all apps may have to introduce their helpers
> for something simple like prompts ...
> 
> I think there was at least three better ways to solve the issue:
> 
> - Convince Owen to support hig dialogs in gtk+ in some way
> - Hack a new implementation in egg, either using the same api or
> changing it if necessary. It could have gone in gtk later (3.0 or when
> Owen would feel comfortable).
> - Make glade support higgy dialogs

Sorry for my lack of knowledge, but what is a "hig dialog"? Human
Interface Guideline Dialogs?

> 
> Anyway I think I have these possibilities to deal with sharing problem.
> 
> - Convince galeon people to use gtk at least for mozilla prompts until
> there is a better solution (or to work on it ;)
> - Use their hig dialog as private in mozilla/
> - Modify their code and lose the ability to sync
> 
> Another thing to keep in consideration is the possibility that the two
> implementations will fork ui wise in the future (the work we are doing
> on security design could convince us to make changes).
> 
> Opinions ?
> 
> Marco
> 
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