Re: [gDesklets] Button ID proposal

[Joe Sapp <sappj ieee org>]

On 10/24/2010 10:53 AM, Bjoern Koch wrote:
> > I'm curious what your reasons are.  I think the Control method is a good
> > idea (for ease of maintenance, at least).  Then again, the core does already
> > have methods of generating pop-ups...maybe if I knew the arguments for and
> > against I could weigh in with better reasons :)
>
> Well...  hard to tell.
> There are a lot of small things that make me think about it.
>
> Like that there seems no way to tell the PopUp which desklet calls it
> (AFAIK). So - worst case - lots of PopUps pop up and needs an
> interaction of the user. This can be hard for the user if he/she cannot
> link the popup to the desklet.
>
> Furthermore there seems no way (again AFAIK) to close open PopUps when
> the desklet is closed. This can lead to orphaned popups.
>
> And some other small things that sum up.
>
> But finally: the display file should be for the display/GUI (only) and
> the controls for the rest. I am not sure where popups should be placed
> here, but I think they are more part of the display/GUI...
>
> But again: I am not really sure about it, but the more I think about it
> the integration into the ADL looks nicer/better to me.

All these are good points and I agree on all of them.  My vote would be for 
ADL implementation.  Maybe that's not feasible for this release...?  Let's 
argue about implementation details later :)

What do you think needs to be done on the basic desklets?  (BTW, all the 
changes I spoke about in previous emails have been committed.)

Thanks,
Joe