Re: GNOME CVS: gnome-core mmclouglin

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On 26 Nov 2001, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:

> El lun, 26-11-2001 a las 01:24, Michael Meeks escribió:
> > 
> > Hi Mark,
> > 
> > On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > >       Essentially, when configuring, take the icon, encode it in xml
> > > and stuff it in the .server file. It would work, and its all very   
> > > exotic and stuff, but personally I think its rather crack laden :-) 
> >   
> >         Just a word from the burned - I wouldn't get too het up about the
> > possibilities of applets on remote machines - they will cause much trouble
> > beyond the worry about whether they have icons.
> >         
> >         I'd design the quickest and best way of doing this on a local
> > machine; and if that means coding a path - go for it. No icon is not the  
> > end of the world for a very corner case.
> 
> Well, I talk about applets as an example. Please think about Evolution
> components. They have the same problem. Think about running the shell in
> your local machine and the addressbook running at a remote machine. We
> have the same problem there.
> 
> The question is. Are we offering a distributed system? or only a local
> system?

question? we're not really going rename this to GLOME, are we? ;)

> 
> Bye
> >         
> >         Regards,
> >   
> >                 Michael.
> > 

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ciaoTJ