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

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

I was under the impression that gtk themes uses modules. The engines are
modules. Since each user can choose which theme they want, the same could
apply for the dialogs. Maby the dialogs should be part of gtk themes as
well.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Daniel Burrows [SMTP:Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu]
> Sent:	Wednesday, December 30, 1998 9:56 AM
> To:	'gnome-list@gnome.org'
> Subject:	Re: UI Rantings [was: Re: gmc and file-selection mockups]
> 
> 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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