Re: [gnome-love] New feature

[Sebastian Kapp <lasheimok web de>]

On 25 May 2001 11:21:52 +1200, Luke Hutchison wrote:

> That's a very valid point, assuming that you already have a document
to
> embed.  However you would have to either create a document in the first
> application, save it to a temporary file, and insert that temporary file as
> an embedded component in the second application, or create a "New" empty
> embedded object in the second application which can then be edited in-place
<snip>

OS/2 used templates to gernate new documents. You just draw them from
the template folder to whereever the file shall be, and open it like any
other file.

> [As an aside: Back in 1987 RISC OS had a panel (Task Bar) and windowing
> system very similar to GNOME's today, and way before W95 came out with some
> similar stuff (remember this is in the days of W3.1).  We share some common
> philosophies and I think it would be worth it for some GNOME UI people to
> check out the RISC OS Styleguide.]

Can you give us some URLs?