Re: some thoughts..

[robert havoc pennington <rhpennin midway uchicago edu>]

On Wed, 6 May 1998, Kenneth R. Kinder wrote:
> 
> BTW, we have a gnomified mozilla???  Where???
>

Well, it's not actually *finished*, but people are working on it. ... ;-)
Look on www.mozilla.org under "ports."
 
> I agree; memory usage of gnome, at present isn't bad.  And it is a fine, 
> fine file manager (he has a nack for great file managers).  At any rate, 
> with folks taking about integrating the file manager with everything else, 
> and integrating everything else with the file manager, we need to look at 
> a modular approach.  Do you understand my position?  No need for 
> super-duper modules on a NORMAL file manager, but with developers talking 
> about a file manager with everything from FTP to SMB to ice cream :), I 
> have to think a modular approach would be best for this kind of thing.
>

Ultimately everything is likely to be modular via CORBA, I guess.
 
> > I don't mean to snap at you in particular, it just seems that every other
> > day someone posts saying "I don't want to run this program" "Isn't the
> > Help bloat? I don't need help, I'm too manly" etc.
> 
> If you're too manly for ghelp, use the man pages! <g>
>

Was that god-awful pun intentional? :)
 
> Yeah.  In the interest of documentation, I'm doing a DocStructure project 
> myself -- to allow developers to quickly and easily write documentation!  
>:)  And I'm taking resource usage as a lower priority than modularity and 
> speed of development; I'm writing it Python! :)
> 

Sounds cool.

> I couldn't help but notice you talked about CORBA a little.  Which CORBA 
> implementation do you suggest, and what's a good way to learn its C/C++ 
> bindings?
> 

? I don't think I mentioned it. The plan is to use a custom-written ORB
called ORBit, though. It's not finished, but you can find it in CVS.

I'd guess you have to learn it like most Gnome stuff: read the source.
If you're lucky there will be comments. ;-) 

Havoc Pennington
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