From: Syd Polk <spolk@redhat.com>
To: tromey@cygnus.com, Mo DeJong <mdejong@cygnus.com>
Cc: sourcenav@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: future plans
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 12:22:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20001121122249.01a67920@pop.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871yw6i3ag.fsf@creche.cygnus.com>
>There are two more important things that Gnome has that S-N currently
>can't do:
>
>* Drag and drop
>* Session management
>
>Both of these can be written as Tcl extensions though.
>
>The D&D protocol is (I believe) well-documented and in use by a few
>groups (both Gnome and KDE at least). (I know you've argued against
>D&D before, but I've never understood your argument.)
I don't remember arguing against the idea of drag-and-drop. It is a great
feature which I would love to have.
>Gnome's session management is just XSMP. There is an (ugly) X library
>to help you do this; Gnome just wraps it with a nicer API. (At some
>point session management and configuration storage might tie together
>somehow. That would be harder to emulate.)
I don't know what "session management" means.
>Gnome also has some other things, like the ability to play sounds in
>response to certain events (activate a button widget, get a beep).
>This is along the lines of themability though -- not deeply important.
>
>
>The really important Gnome stuff comes later: componentization of
>everything. Maybe it will be possible to use this from Tcl, too, with
>some work. I don't know.
>
>Maybe components aren't important for an IDE. I think they could be
>used though. For instance the debugger gui could be plugged in to S-N
>somehow.
The problem is, of course, that this is a major rewrite of something.
Either Tk has to be fitted with it, or we have to rewrite the entire GUI in
GNOME. I would rather not spend several man-years doing the latter.
Syd Polk spolk@redhat.com
Engineering Manager +1 415 777 9810 x 241
Red Hat, Inc.
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-20 4:47 Simone Contini
2000-11-20 12:02 ` Syd Polk
2000-11-20 15:24 ` Mo DeJong
2000-11-20 15:37 ` Timothee Besset
2000-11-21 11:02 ` Mo DeJong
2000-11-20 16:13 ` Tom Tromey
2000-11-21 12:22 ` Syd Polk [this message]
2000-11-21 12:31 ` Mo DeJong
2000-11-21 12:32 ` Tom Tromey
2000-11-21 15:18 ` Bruce Stephens
2000-11-21 15:47 ` Tom Tromey
2000-11-21 15:41 ` Syd Polk
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2000-11-21 19:50 ` Mo DeJong
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2000-09-15 5:06 ` SN452 Installation Rouviere, Stephane
2000-09-15 5:24 ` Bruce Stephens
2000-09-15 11:20 ` Syd Polk
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2000-08-03 9:22 ` Getting started with tcl Thomas Heller
2000-08-03 9:40 ` Bruce Stephens
2000-08-03 10:19 ` Syd Polk
2000-09-27 1:12 ` Source navigator roadmap, features list, etc.? William Gacquer
2000-09-27 22:16 ` Bruce Stephens
2000-09-28 9:15 ` Berek
2000-09-28 13:26 ` Syd Polk
2000-09-28 13:22 ` Syd Polk
2000-10-03 16:02 ` Mo DeJong
2000-10-04 10:25 ` Syd Polk
2000-10-04 13:27 ` SN Printing Under WIN/NT Berek
2000-10-04 15:27 ` Mo DeJong
2000-10-04 16:50 ` Paul Selormey
2000-10-04 17:04 ` Mo DeJong
2000-10-05 12:06 ` Syd Polk
2000-10-05 13:13 ` Berek
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