Re: dot-oaf style questions

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> 
> Hi Bill,
> 
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Bill Haneman wrote:
> 
> > Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > >
> > >         <oaf_attribute name="repo_ids" type="stringv">
> > >                 <item value="IDL:GNOME/PanelAppletShell:1.0"/>
> > >                 <item value="IDL:Bonobo/Control:1.0"/>
> > >                 <item value="IDL:Bonobo/Unknown:1.0"/>
> > >         </oaf_attribute>
> >
> > Do you have to specify Bonobo/Unknown and Control in this case ? - I
> > thought the other interfaces derived from it, and that one needn't
> > explicitly list derived interfaces in oaf attributes.  Am I wrong?
> 
>         You don't *need* to - this information if only used when
> querying.
> 
>         So in this example, where PanelAppletShell is an aggregate,
> the Bonobo/Unknown part is of no use to *me* - but may be of use to
> bonobo-browser if it wanted to query for all Bonobo_Unknowns
> available.
> 
>         Its completely up to you what information you want to make
> available.

Hmm, that's my concern.  I don't see why the query would not know about
inheritance - unless of course it's too hard/expensive to implement ;-)

-Bill
 
> Good Luck,
> Mark.
> 
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