Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re: About the proposed preferences dialog

On Dec 19, 2005, at 8:12 AM, Ralf Stephan wrote:

However, you are advised to subclass your dialog from Inkscape::Dialog::Dialog, which takes care of some signals, the transientizing, and the Close Button for you.

One alternative is not to code a dialog.

:-)

Instead, code something that could go into a dialog, but doesn't have to.

http://wiki.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?DialogReplacement (The main principle here would be to favor aggregation over inheritance)

I'm actually about to some of the interface classes back in and switch the Swatches to it, so that it can come up in the main UI also.