Re: Bonobo UI stuff

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Michael Meeks <michael ximian com> writes:

> 	It may have eluded your research, but the XML in question (UI
> description) forms a part of the Bonobo UI API, which is built on top of a
> CORBA transport between a component and a container which may reside on
> different machines.
> 
> 	I see no useful use of gnome-vfs here. A stream API on the other
> hand for streaming images - yes.

Well, I guess someone needs to go ahead and propose an API so we can talk
about it.

What about the following:

* We add a new section <image-factory> to the XML, like this:

        <image-factory name="<local-to-the-component>">
                <image name="<local-to-this-factory>" uri="something"/>
        </image-factory>

  Foreach <image-factory> section in the XML, a Bonobo::ImageFactory CORBA
  object is created which maps image names to image uris and which can return
  the image data as a Bonobo::Stream. The image factory should be local to the
  component, so we don't need to worry about local file names etc.

* In the XML code, we reference images through this factory, for instance

        <image factory="local-factory" name="image-name"/>

  or

        <image factory="ior-of-remote-factory" name="image-name"/>

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Martin Baulig
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