Re: secondary ui what is
Andreas Rottmann <[email protected]>
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Robert Hart <[email protected]> writes: > Nah. A primary UI is one that provides the core functionality of zinf. > Without a primary UI zinf is unusable. Secondary UI's provide additional > functionality of some kind, but would be considered optional. > > For example, I have written an "On Screen Display" ui, which pops up the > name of the track in large friendly letters onto the screen when you > change tracks. Useful perhaps, but you couldn't use it to control zinf. > > Some secondary UI's (such as the music browser) can actually do pretty > much everything, and certainly handle key-presses. > > The design of the plugin system isn't all that clear to me though > either, and I can see a few shortcomings. e.g. no way for plugins to add > items to the options window, no way to select which secondary UIs from > the options window etc. > The plugin system is pretty much an ugly hack, AFAICT, and should be replaced by something more capable. This has been discussed already and no conclusion has been reached the last time. Maybe time for another discussion? Regards, Andy -- Andreas Rottmann | Rotty@ICQ | 118634484@ICQ | [email protected] http://www.8ung.at/rotty | GnuPG Key: http://www.8ung.at/rotty/gpg.asc Fingerprint | DFB4 4EB4 78A4 5EEE 6219 F228 F92F CFC5 01FD 5B62 This reality is really just a fucked-up dream -- Papa Roach ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by Dice.com. Did you know that Dice has over 25,000 tech jobs available today? From careers in IT to Engineering to Tech Sales, Dice has tech jobs from the best hiring companies. http://www.dice.com/index.epl?rel_code=104