Re: Icons and document-types

[Fred Bacon <bacon mediaone net>]

Jim Pick wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I didn't know where to jump in on this thread, so I started a new one.
> 
> Conceptually, for me, icons are easy to do:
> 
> 1) First we identify the document type for a document.
>        (returning an "object")
> 

Yes, but its the "How do we identify the document type?" question that's
the sticking point.

> 
> Simple.  CORBA-based.  And it pushes the debate out to the
> implementation (multiple implementations can compete).  This is why I
> have been advocating an emacs/CORBA-way of doing things.
> 

Ha! Exactly!  I just had a similar realization before I got your
message.  It's just exactly what CORBA Services are meant to do.