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

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

Would we want to sacrafice speed on an open dialog box?
One of the open dialog modules could use corba, but we probably want the
ability not to use corba as well.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Rowan van der Molen [SMTP:bigsmoke@usa.net]
> Sent:	Wednesday, December 30, 1998 3:09 PM
> To:	gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject:	RE: UI Rantings [was: Re: gmc and file-selection mockups]
> 
> At 09:57 30-12-98 -0800, you wrote:
> >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)
> >> 
> CORBA would be the most flexible
> 
> >> -- 
> >>   Daniel Burrows
> >> 
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> >> 
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> >> (d) Therefore, nothing is hopeless.  QED.
> >> 
> >> 
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