Re: Bonobo UI stuff

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

Michael Meeks <michael ximian com> writes:

> 	I think now that the general public understand the issue - they
> might share my lack of abhorence for images being stringified for
> transport and internal storage. I really don't think the API is that
> broken currently.
> 
> 	Furthermore, the image transport is one of the slower parts of the
> UI handler, and it currently involves no round trips. If we start
> introducing stream IO / bi-directional CORBA comms simply to load a
> single small image - I suspect we will achieve over design and
> extraordinary application paralysis in double quick time.
> 
> 	Thus I think while the factory solution was the best suggestion
> made, and has a 'correct' design in a way that mangling URLs into the
> stream doesn't - I don't think it is either neccessary or useful.
> 
> 	However - what would be most useful, and what you pointed out
> originaly is splitting out and sharing pixmaps - to a separate
> namespace. Thus if a pixmap is re-used multiple times, it can be stored
> only once thus:
> 
> 	<menuitem pixtype="image" pixname="my_image"/>
> 	...
> 	<images>
> 		<img name="my_image" pixdata="10x13a001323234a..."/>
> 		...
> 	</images>
> 
> 	This would save storage, and be more efficient for get/sets of
> chunks of the tree which would no longer need to push / pull large pixmap
> filled attributes.
> 
> 	Also, doing the above is simple, quick and doable in ~30 mins.
> 
> 	How does that sound ?

Hi Michael,

sounds good, but either you need to implement it yourself or wait two weeks,
I'll be away until July 23rd.

I was so stupid, I just realized that today is Monday and not Sunday, so my
weekend is already over :-(

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Martin Baulig
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