RE: GEM : Gnome Event Manager

[FONTENELLE Olivier <Olivier Fontenelle isr alcatel-alsthom fr>]

Urmane:
>>How about, instead of just stopping at a confirmation interface, breaking
>>apart a whole wad of widgets and making them generic services?  When app X
>>needs a filename, it CORBA's to your gui object to see if it has a
>>FileDialog object registered, and, if it does, asks CORBA to fire it up and
>>return a filename.  (If there isn't one, just use the filedialog widget in
>>the library.)  Don't like the filedialog widget?  Write another one.  Make
>>it print in 24 point and have blinkenlights.

	Well, that's actually what the "component" talks are about... You're
	precisely describing how some OpenDoc parts (or any other component
	architecture elements) would interact.

	The problem is that it requires IMHO much more work that the "simple"
	CORBA thingies I thought of -- first getting a working OpenDoc 
	implementation. But I suppose the long range objective is actually 
	something like that !

Regards,
-- Olivier