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

[Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows brown edu>]

On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 08:19:18AM -0800, Fox, Kevin M was heard to say:
> 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.
> 

  Hmm, what happens if two users on the same computer want different dialogs?
Sounds too much like the Athena widget setup to me..  I think that it should
either be a CORBA object or (is this possible?) in a .lo file (a la themes)

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