Hi Thomas, I'd like to react on this:
> Single-file qooxdoo > People sympathizing with this idea should also consider handling of > images. How would a single-file qooxdoo download handle the many images > that are used by framework classes, from obvious images like icons in the > Tree widget to denote files and folders, to less obvious like the > background images for buttons (for pressed, unpressed, hovered, ... > states) and images to create the border decoration of widgets. Can anyone > offer a compelling strategy how to address this? Because if not, the whole > idea is flawed, because as it currently stands you cannot use qooxdoo > widgets without the accompanying images. How others did it? Maybe it's time to think about architecture and to build modules instead of generator+one monolithic file. I think that qooxdoo devs were really inspired by Java (the filesystem, one class per file, etc) and did really hard job to allow this kind of programming (generator, resolving dependent classes, etc), but is this the way other developers want to do? For example I'm not using this concept, this is reason I created QxBuild. I want one single qooxdoo library, but if this library will be divided to sections (Core, Virtual, ... I talked about) then it will be good. I'm talking about this, because this is possibility how to use qooxdoo that is not in qooxdoo website, what about new users coming from other worlds who do not understand how they should put one class per file and use generator - this is the point. Qooxdoo is based on really monolithic architecture (compiler, theming, assets, everything must be known at compile time) and there is no way how to make an add-on (new widget that contains also some custom theme + resources) without recompiling the whole qooxdoo. I think that this the is main problem in this area. This was my 2 cents ;-) I'd like to write more about that, the possibilities I see, etc, but I need some time (also my English is quite bad) Best regards - Petr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
