Re: Layout support + widget fixes
At 01:28 PM 8/24/99 +0200, Jan Vroonhof wrote:
That is exactly what I am "afraid" of. The current
"text in buffers"
metaphor may produce ugly interface but is consistent. It will work on
TTY's and on window systems. I like the fact that you can just C-s a
long file list in XEmacs, you can C-s for text in a customize buffer
etc. I am prepared to loose some of this as part of interfaces with
real gui elements, but I would like to try to loose at little of it as
buffer. Therefore I am wary of a shift of information from buffers to
glyph data. It is all-right if the glyphs are just markup, but now you
can do much more than that.
All things would be configurable :). IMHO there is no point in just "doing"
native widgets for customize - it must look like a professional GUI. In
order for that to happen a lot of the text stuff must die, the layout needs
to be completely redone etc, etc. You can't search normal dialogs.
However, a better first pass would be a port of the options menu to a
normal GUI. Doing customize would mean doing to all very generically and
that is probably going to be hard.
andy
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Dr Andy Piper
Senior Consultant Architect, BEA Systems Ltd