On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 18:51 -0500, MenTaLguY wrote:
Frankly, I'm with JonCruz on this one -- socket windows are the wrong way to go about this conceptually anyway, in general.
We want something more semantically rich. To begin with, something simple and more domain-specific might be appropriate, rather than trying to implement XBL+XUL or something (I'd kind of like to get our XML infrastructure cleaned up a LOT first...).
I guess there is two points here for me:
1) Then we can't do things like embed KDE's print dialog, or perhaps Window's. Those are minor cases, but I'm sure more will come along.
2) I really don't want to define our own format for GUI description... that seems like alot of effort for little gain. If we could piggyback on Glade that wouldn't seem that bad.
Perhaps if we had a list of functions you could connect to, then you could set the data to something like extension name and parameter name, and then it would set to the value. Would that work for people?
--Ted