Re: new UI Handler conversion questions

["John Sullivan" <sullivan eazel com>]

on 9/11/00 10:51 AM, Michael Meeks at michael helixcode com wrote:

> 
> Hi John,
> 
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, John Sullivan wrote:
>> I'm wondering about Nautilus's conversion to use the new Bonobo
>> UIHandler. I've been following the threads to some extent but may have
>> missed some crucial information, I'm not sure. Here's what I'm
>> wondering:
>> 
>> 1. What part (if any) of this conversion are you planning to do
>> yourself?
> 
> I am planning to do the majority of the grunt work, converting the
> chunks of API by hand to xml.
> 
>> 2. When would it make sense for others to start trying to convert
>> Nautilus over?
> 
> Um; well, when I have something working I will send a patch to
> Nautilus and then people can decide what to do with it, whether to develop
> on a branch or, what. The best approach for getting it working quickly is
> not always clear.
> 
>> 3. Is there documentation about how to do such a conversion?
> 
> I'll just commit my new FAQ. The main pain in the process is the
> manual task of generating XML from the API calls; the documentation is
> mainly that of example in bonobo/app.c bonobo/ui.xml but also read
> ui-handler.txt, ui-faq.txt
> 
> I'm currently polishing some of the inner workings of bonobo, but
> I hope to commit my major breakage to Evolution soon; then I'll start on
> nautilus.
> 
> Does that help ?

Yes, thanks for the answers.

John