Re: Possible RFC for windows in DocBook

[Ali Abdin <aliabdin aucegypt edu>]

* Dan Mueth (d-mueth@uchicago.edu) wrote at 23:36 on 21/08/00:
> 
> DocBook seems to be missing appropriate tags to mark up several user
> interface components.  These include:
>   1) windows
>   2) dialogs
>   3) panels
>   4) other stuff: sliders, status bars, scroll bars, and zillions of
>      other GUI widgets which aren't worth making tags for each one
> 
> I have been trying to figure out whether these need to be marked up and if
> so, how.  One of the best suggestions I've seen was proposed by Eric after
> a fair amount of discussion and debate.  He proposed that we mark up 1-3
> as:
> 
>   1) <window>
>   2) <window role="dialog">
>   3) <window role="panel">
> 
> This seems to be a very consistant and logical approach to me.  What do
> other people think?
> 
> For #4, we could either create a generic GUI item tag such as <guiitem> or
> <guiobject>, or else leave them unmarked.  
> 
> What do people think of these ideas?  I wanted to get some opinions
> before I put in an RFC.  Please note that we cannot start using these tags
> yet, so I don't want to see these showing up in any GDP docs ;)

I know this mail is very late - but I've been on vacation ;)

The cool thing about gnome-db2html2 is I can implement anything I want -
buwhahaha ;)

But of course - I won't - unless it is part of Docbook standards :) Heh - if
only we were Microsoft - we could "embrace and extend"

Regards,
Ali