Re: On Emblems

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Hi,

Clemens Buss schrieb:
> Hello,
>
> may I briefly introduce myself, for those who don't know me and who are
> probably the majority as I suppose. My name is Clemens Buss and I
> currently do a Summer of Code for GNOME (
> http://code.google.com/soc/2008/gnome/appinfo.html?csaid=C4B0B39CD64C9CE6
> ) mentored by Christian Kellner.
> The title of my project is "Tagging and Emblems on the GNOME Desktop".
> The goal is sort of a cleanup of the whole emblems-concept in GNOME and
> a connection of it with a decent tagging system. But I don't want to
> repeat what's on my SoC page and a lot will become clearer below anyway.
> Let's try to come to the point.

> Since a while but more actively since last week I am working on a design
> and implementation for the representation of emblems together with
> GIcon. Yesterday, Matthias Clasen and I figured that we are both kind of
> working on the same problem right now, which is the support for Emblems
> in GIcon.
> Today we had a good discussion or IRC on the whole matter and he asked
> and encouraged me to post my design for discussion.
>
>
>
> So I would like to present and explain what I have in mind. Essentially
> it is the following:
>
> - GThemedIcon
>    +----GEmblem: it inherits from GThemedIcon, plus then adds
> properties, which can indicate for instance where the emblem "comes
> from" (see ? below).

How important is that we keep the term "emblem". I don't like 'GEmblemableIcon' 
that much. The emblem can be used as a decoration/annotation/tag. So what about
- GThemedIcon
   +----GIconDecoration:

- GInterface
   +----GDecoratableIcon:
(is 'decoratable' an english word?)

Stefan