Re: Pluggable widgets II

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 10:22 +0100, Tim Janik wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Mark McLoughlin wrote:

> >  - How does this work for application derived types?
> >
> >    e.g. if vino derives from GtkLabel to make a label which looks like
> >    a clickable URL, then even if it is instantiated using
> >    g_factory_create() a gtk theme module will not be able to replace
> >    it given the fact it does not have access to the derived gtype
> 
> a theme has many other means to affect widget look or behavior.
> it is not meant to appoint new widget types. or - if you have a
> use case for this, please elaborate.

	Where is intended for new implementations of stock widgets and dialogs
to be plugged in? A gtk+ module? Or a "platform library" which apps must
link to in order to use these new implementations?

	Whichever it is, I'm wondering about things like VinoUrl - i.e. an
application derived widget. Should it be expected that a plugged-in
re-implementation of GtkLabel would also be used by VinoUrl? Probably
not, now that I think of it.

Thanks,
Mark.