Re: [Fresco-devel] Desktop environment proposal

Il sab, 2002-12-14 alle 20:20, Stefan Seefeld ha scritto:
> Pier Luigi Fiorini wrote:
> 
> > The first thing that comes into my head is that all the widgets must
> > stay on the server in WidgetKit.
> 
> well, that depends on what you mean by 'widget'. Do you mean the scene
> graph that represents the widget, or do you mean the 'receipt' that
> expresses how to make it ?
I meant the scene graph.

> The scene graph should indeed (if ever possible) stay in the server,
> but you can well construct it from within the client. The hope is that
> the low level kits (ToolKit, CommandKit, FigureKit, etc.) will provide
> enough building blocks to construct new high level objects such as
> widgets. And that may happen whereever you want. Prototyping new objects
> from python clients is indeed something some people have been doing quite
> successfully.
Indeed I am writing a set of Python classes that are useful for my
purposes.
They allows you to build, for example, a button with a label passing
only a string to the constructor.
I really love GTK stock buttons so Pyro.Button widget will have also
this feature.

> And as soon as the first prototypes are done, we can discuss again whether
> these things belong into the server or into clients, and whether they fit
> into the project, i.e. should become part of it, or whether they are
> conceptually independent.
OK, I am very happy to contribute to the Fresco project.
-- 
Pier Luigi Fiorini
Rolling GNU/Linux lead developer
http://rolling.berlios.de

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