Re: GnomeMDI - the \"{u}berreply

[Dietmar Maurer <dietmar ximian com>]

Martin Baulig wrote:

> > 3.1 specifically, I want to create a simple bonobo interface for the
> > children, defining the methods that MDI needs for handling children
> > (like getName and createView). the programmer would add this interface
> > to an existing bonobo object (emebeddable, control or something else).
> > the MDI would be a simple bonobo container app which would query an
> > object used as child for this interface and use its methods (a natural
> > mapping of this child/view concept to bonobo would be the use of an
> > embeddable as a child and its views as MDI views). I'm not sure whether
> > this should go anywhere in the core libraries (if so, libgnomeui would
> > be the most suitable, I suppose) or if there is an interest beyond mine
> > for such an interface, but I will be implementing it for the Gnome2
> > version of GHex as I will be able to reuse much of the existing MDI code
> > (view layout and session management) and leave all the UI merging to the
> > now omni-present bonobo.
>
> Well, I like the idea, but I think this should be developed outside of
> libgnomeui. However, if you want, I think we can put it in bonobo-extra.

bonobo-extra is a good place for that. Maybe it is worth to take a look at
bonobo/gshell to start with such thing?

- Dietmar