Re: Suggestion: View-pane

I just read an article about ioslaves and kde not 2 minutes before I read this 
message, its quite informative and I think something similar should 
definately be developed for Y (but this is a development that will occur 
quite a bit in the future obviously. check it at: 
http://osdir.com/Article2159.phtml

Peas,
-kaplanfx

On Friday 29 October 2004 03:05 pm, [email protected] wrote:
> Well it's not really C++ that's the problem, it's the general idea of
> having a one thing to do it all approach. Anything you can do in C++ you
> can do in Java. Same goes with many other languages, object oriented or
> not. You just have to approach the coding in a different manner.
>
> KDE does what you're thinking of in a rather nice manner (ie - how if you
> have an IOSlave installed [local/ftp/webdav/fish] you can open any
> document [html/pdf/image] in konqueror).
>
> If you're talking about something similar to what KDE has going for it
> (which is awesome) it really needs to be implemented on a higher level
> (like in a desktop environment, not the windowing system). So we don't
> have a server (or even the windowing system libraries) worrying about what
> kind of file we are trying to view. The application (or a library in the
> Desktop Environment for that application) can determine what file it is
> and setup the propper widget. IMHO the drawing should still be done on a
> canvas widget since different applications will have different ideas on
> how to draw HTML among other things.
>
> Keep the actual windowing system focused on what it was meant to do,
> create widgets and render them. Not interpretting HTML or TeX or anything
> like that.
>
> Regards,
> James
>
> > thanks guys for the comments, on seeing them I do have to apologise. I
> > have been mucking about Java programming for a while back and have still
> > got the mindset of superclasses, extending classess, implenting classes
> > etc.
> >
> > What I had in mind was a 'one thing suits all' which does not work in
> > C++ and would result in the enforcement of  a set of rules which
> > everybody must follow.
> >
> > It's going to take me a while to get up to speed with the C++ languague
> > and getting rid of concepts built up by using proprietry code.