Re: Oaf names & file structure

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Miguel de Icaza <miguel helixcode com> writes:

> > Jody, if you have any particular needs for component activation in
> > Gnumeric, I'd love to talk about it sometime and make sure a solution
> > is, or will be, available. The same goes for Evolution or any other
> > major GNOME program.
> 
> The issue is not to address specific cases.  Jody showed a sample case
> where you want to use a specific implementation, and where the query
> system would not cut it.

I do realize that sometimes you need to request a specific component,
though I think such cases should be minimal (see my response to
Martin's mail). I was asking Jody if he had any other specific
concerns.

> I am sure in the future there would be other instances of this.  This
> is such a common used mechanism that activating by component ID is
> something wildely used in the Microsoft world, and it should be
> possible to do so in a way that is simpler than keeping track of those
> huge UUIDs.

"those huge UUIDs" are the essentially the only way to activate (and
the only way to QueryInterface) in MS-land. I honestly don't think
they are that bad. In fact, you argued that they were a good idea last
time this came up.

 - Maciej