Re: UI design [was Owen Taylor's paper]

On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 01:19:44PM -0400, Justin Moore wrote:
> > Who do you suggest defines this layout?
> > What if I want a button label that's not in the definition?
> 
>    XML has DTD's.  Glade can build a GUI from an XML file.  Why not use
> the tools we already have to allow themeable layout and arrangement? 
> That way RedHat (or whoever) can simply apply the "RedHat DTD" to the
> GUI, compile, and distribute.  Application developers can create their
> own non-standard dialogs/buttons if necessary, and just let the DTD have
> stuff fall through unchanged if it doesn't match.
This *currently* can't work, because the change in the button *position*
needs to be reflected in code (this can be worked around, but the
result is not pretty and IMHO needless more work) and it doesn't solve the
problem of GTK+-only or Qt apps.

And the GNOME press releases seem to imply that the GNOME 2 API is perfect
and intended to last forever ;-)
	Mirek