Re: A proposaly type thing

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

This sounds very similar to the bonobo component architecture that is
currently being developed.  It allows you to create reusable components
similar to what OLE gives you with windows.  Maybe you could take a look
at this code.

James.

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On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Danni Coy wrote:

> The purpose of this letter is to provoke discussion on the future of
> gnome.....
> 
> Heres some idea's I have put together......
> 1) more seperation of interface from functionality. rather than having a
> photo manipulation program (gimp) and a word processor (GWP, GO,
> abiword). we could have a bitmap engine and a rich text engine, these
> engines would provide the functionality that any interface program could
> use. It would cut out a lot of duplicate code.
> 2) It would probably be based on  mime types.
> 3) These engines would be plugins so that you could replace them is you
> did not like the way a particular engine works. engines could be loaded
> as dependencies require.
> 4) this would require cooperation from most of the large application
> makers in order to work. I know  that gimp developement is already
> heading for seperation of functionality from interface.
> 
> Please contribute ideas, comments, anything helpful. Try not to flame
> me. I am the worlds best coder and I may have missed many important
> technical details.
> 
> 
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