Re: [E-devel] Understanding Faces

2005-12-16 Thread David Stevenson
On 12/17/05, Brian Mattern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 16 December 2005 09:57, Essien Ita Essien wrote:> About E_Gadget, have you added support for being able to load a theme from> a name edje file yet? If not, I could send in a patch to do that... my > current tree (checked out on Tuesday

RE: [E-devel] Understanding Faces

2005-12-16 Thread Essien Ita Essien
>> About E_Gadget, have you added support for being able to load a theme from >> a name edje file yet? If not, I could send in a patch to do that... my >> current tree (checked out on Tuesday), only has support for applying a >> theme from e's default theme. >I don't think we want the module itse

Re: [E-devel] Understanding Faces

2005-12-16 Thread Brian Mattern
On Friday 16 December 2005 09:57, Essien Ita Essien wrote: > About E_Gadget, have you added support for being able to load a theme from > a name edje file yet? If not, I could send in a patch to do that... my > current tree (checked out on Tuesday), only has support for applying a > theme from e's

RE: [E-devel] Understanding Faces

2005-12-16 Thread Essien Ita Essien
>> My first question is... which is *more* correct (naively, without >> understanding much about e's display layer behaviour, I'll think the >> calendar module approach, *seems* sensible to me.) >> >There is one Manager per X screen, an arbitrary number of Containers per >Manager, and an arbitra

Re: [E-devel] Understanding Faces

2005-12-16 Thread Brian Mattern
On Friday 16 December 2005 05:47, Essien Ita Essien wrote: > I was playing around with module faces yesterday, trying to understand them > enuff to write about them, and now I have a few questions. > > So far, I see that E seems to keep a series of Managers. Each manager has a > Container which has

Re: [E-devel] Understanding Faces

2005-12-16 Thread Russell Shaw
Morten Nilsen wrote: Essien Ita Essien wrote: Now I'm going to go off an cry in private ;) Seriously though, I'm one of those with the ancient *curse of understanding*... yes Sir!!! I absolutely must be able to fit the whole concept in my brain else I'm parallised. Upside is... once its there..

Re: [E-devel] Understanding Faces

2005-12-16 Thread Morten Nilsen
Essien Ita Essien wrote: Now I'm going to go off an cry in private ;) Seriously though, I'm one of those with the ancient *curse of understanding*... yes Sir!!! I absolutely must be able to fit the whole concept in my brain else I'm parallised. Upside is... once its there... I can do magic... dow

RE: [E-devel] Understanding Faces

2005-12-16 Thread Essien Ita Essien
>I guess that could depend on what the purpose of the module in question is, but there is some high-level documentation, which may help shed some light on the whole managers + containers >thing at: >http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/enlightenment/e17/apps/e/d oc/documentation.ht

Re: [E-devel] Understanding Faces

2005-12-16 Thread David Stevenson
On 12/16/05, Essien Ita Essien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was playing around with module faces yesterday, trying to understand themenuff to write about them, and now I have a few questions.So far, I see that E seems to keep a series of Managers. Each manager has a Container which has the evas obj

[E-devel] Understanding Faces

2005-12-16 Thread Essien Ita Essien
I was playing around with module faces yesterday, trying to understand them enuff to write about them, and now I have a few questions. So far, I see that E seems to keep a series of Managers. Each manager has a Container which has the evas object we want. A lot of modules loop thru *all* the mana