Re: Re: secondary ui what is (Andreas Rottmann)

Hi,
I can only say that the code does not follow this explanation. It does 
all kind of strange things.

I think that the separation between "primary" and "secondary" is a 
little bit special. Additional the code has some special handling of 
"download" and "browser" and "toolbar".

I guess it would be a good idea to collect just the requirements for the UI.
My requirements ware:

1. it shall be possible to load an arbitrary number of UIs
2. if no UIs are specified on the command line, then a selection from 
the configuration file shall used.
3. if still no UI is loaded then zinf shall try to load a pre-defined UI 
(could be different for graphical or text environment)
4. a UI shall be able to  refuse to be loaded
5. a UI shall be able to request other UIs to be loaded
6. it shall be possible to load other UIs later on


just collect all the requirements, conflicting requirements need to be 
discussed.
Then all requirements should be placed in the documentation and the code 
should be implemented according to the requirements.

Open SW needs a little bit more SW design in my opinion...

BR,
Ralf

>Robert Hart <[email protected]> writes:
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>>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. 
>>
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>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
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>



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