On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:44:49 -0800 (PST) c_c <cchan...@yahoo.com> said:
> > Hi, > > Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: > > > > Sure, FSO is not concerned with UI things. > > > Well, to my mind, the end user wouldn't care whether the 'thing' is UI or > not. I would imagine that the settings app would need to (ideally) handle > everything in one place, irrespective of what happens in the background. > I agree that we need use the FSO/DBus abstraction for all that it provides > - but there will be things that will also need to be handled by this app > which have no abstraction in place and will have to be handled directly. > Rasterman's mail also opens interesting possibilities. We could have the > settings app launched from e's settings panel. That way, e handles all the > UI stuff and the app handles the FSO stuff - and everything stays in one > place - the place most users are anyway going for setting whatever they can > as of now. > How does that sound? > > @ Rasterman - would it be possible to modify Illume to display a category > drop down on the top bar, group apps by categories and show only those apps > that belong to the category chosen? possible - not that i'm going to do it - but anything is possible with code. :) i am not touching the launcher in illume as i am going to pretty much gut it anyway later. if you want a settings app - write one. if the .desktop Categories have System and Settings in it - it will get listed under the system "tab" in e's settings panel - clicking it will launch that app. > Also, can Illume handle some kind of a notification pop up - that gets > data from the DBus for eg? e has a notification module that does this with the xdf notifications dbus protocol - it likely wont look great on a small screen - but it'll work. > I'm not very clear about what's being done in the theme (so to say) in e > and what's being done in code. Could you clarify? it depends on the exact situation. > Also, can you point me to any examples/doc's on how Illume works? Thanks. not really - code. illume is just a module (plugin) for e (think of it like a kernel module or a firefox addon). it just changes e's behavior and ui a bit. the problem is its too much in 1 place and needs splitting up. > -- > View this message in context: > http://n2.nabble.com/Exposure-tp2116082p2238611.html Sent from the Openmoko > Devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > devel@lists.openmoko.org > https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
