RE: UI Rantings [was: Re: gmc and file-selection mockups]

["Fox, Kevin M" <kmfox bhi010 bhi-erc com>]

You could modularize the open dialog code. Then if anyone wants something
different, they could just replace the module. That seems to be the easiest
solution.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Dirk Luetjens [SMTP:dirk@Elfe.lfm.RWTH-Aachen.DE]
> Sent:	Wednesday, December 30, 1998 8:07 AM
> To:	Gleef
> Subject:	Re: UI Rantings [was: Re: gmc and file-selection mockups]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> while this discussion goes on and on, I will ask again wether it isn't
> possible to change the implemention of the open-dialog via themes (or
> possibly via CORBA, or better said, via replaceable objects). In this
> case gnome could ship with a simplistic open.dialog. On the other
> hand the power user is able to change his/her implementation to the
> preferred one. 
> 
> This sounds a bit oversized, but as we see, there is no end to this
> discussion. And on the other hand, in an object environment the user
> should be able to exchange every object, even if it doesn´t make sence
> in the most cases. 
> 
> Why not call the kde open file dialog via corba, or whatever while
> using a kde theme, or the gnustep file dialog while using a gnustep
> theme. This sounds somewhat stupid, but if we are living in an object
> model environment and the interface to the open dialog is 
> standardized, the implementation could change without breaking
> functionality. And in the case of the open-dialog the interface
> between the application and the dialog is very easy:
> 
> open dialog -> set dir. -> set filter -> get filename 
> (or somenthing like this)
> 
> All the other things, we are discussiong about, like printing,
> renaming and so on, is all handled in the dialog itself, and has no
> influence on the application. 
> 
> Just an idea. Think about it.
> 
> Dirk
> 
> P.S. I would like to provide more than ideas, but gnome is running to
> fast that I could catch up in the spare freetime I have beneath my
> diploma thesis. Perhaps next year.
> 
> P.P.S Where can I read about the theme implementation in gtk? I would
> like to now how it works. Someday I came across the berlin project
> home page. As far as I remember they are building everything upon
> CORBA, so that every widget could be exchanged easily. Is the theming
> environment perhaps somewhat like a very light CORBA environment?
> 
> 
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