Re: Fitts's Law, or do you _really_ know how to make a good UI?

[bob thestuff net]

Just recode the gnome dock to accept widgets from other docks (corba
maybe). then, add a gnome applet wich contains a dock, and just drag any
toolbar into the panel then. :)

On 3 Feb 2000, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> "Eric Gillespie, Jr." <epg@pobox.com> writes:
> > 
> > I was thinking about doing this, but it seemed to me that the best
> > solution would be to have a menu applet, to which applications would
> > pass their menu through CORBA. Then, as i learned more about CORBA, it
> > looked like gnome_init would have to be replaced by gnome_corba_init in
> > all gnome apps, and i didn't think that would go over too well.
> > 
> > So, if you could give me some pointers on another way to do this (or
> > approval of the CORBA method), i'll get started.
> > 
> 
> CORBA would work, in GNOME 2 all apps use it anyway, but I think you'd
> find it pretty hard to do that way. You could probably do it cleanly
> with CORBA if we had the gnome-ui-handler stuff from Bonobo in
> gnome-libs and all apps were ported to use it, but...
> 
> In the short term you probably want to just modify GnomeDockItem to
> have the Mac-menu mode in addition to its existing modes.
> 
> Havoc
> 
> 
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