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

[Rowan van der Molen <bigsmoke usa net>]

At 15:08 30-12-98 -0800, you wrote:
>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.
>
As long as I get the choise ;-)


>> 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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>> >> (d) Therefore, nothing is hopeless.  QED.
>> >> 
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