On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:07:22AM +0100, Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg wrote: > some years ago (5? :-) I think Colm Smyth started some discussions > regarding OOos Chrome respectively GUI foundations etc. From what I > remember, this was a nice initiative but unfortunately did not lead to > any fundamental changes regarding how we do GUIs in OOo. > > If others are interested, I would like to revive the discussion .... > Hi Kay,
I surely am - and to start right off with a (maybe provocative) viewpoint, my vision for OOo's future GUI foundations is this: - XCanvas for rendering application content - dialog factories that create dialogs from (xml) resource files (without any static dialog elements remaining in office code) - use awt toolkit for the (supposedly) few remaining places that need UI apart from menus&toolbars in the applications Once we're there, we can phase in native platform bindings for the awt widgets. Rationale: - enables us to get rid of implementation inheritance & dependance on one specific toolkit (vcl today) - and I really think that's what OOo needs first and foremost (being more flexible). - it appears that outside factors will force us to use native platform UI anyway in the not-so-distant future Cheers, -- Thorsten --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
