Re: Preferences (was Re: The HIG and Open a Copy)

Am Freitag, den 25.02.2005, 12:32 -0500 schrieb Hubert Figuiere:
> Francis James Franklin wrote:
> >
> >>> For the Cocoa-FE I had a major problem with the current Preferences
> >>> dialog and ended up using a new one...
> >>
> >>
> >> That is not consistent at all with all the platforms. And that is VERY
> >> BAD.
> >
> >
> > Yes, I know it's bad. It was better than the alternative solutions to
> > the problem.
>
> Which alternatives ? Rewritting it in some way would have been solution,
> but not for that release.
>
> >> My dialog work was targetted at helping addressing these problems by
> >> simplifying the code. I just didn't put any work in it recently due to
> >> personal issues.
> >
> >
> > I'm not at all happy with your dialog work. I hope we will survive it.
>
> Tell me what's wrong with it. I was seeking for comments, and so far I
> didn't get much, so I'm going with my idea....
> I'd be more than happy to satisfy everyone.

I like it and i'd like to use it.
Until now i didn't use it though because i've been reluctant to break
win32 and cocoa (and put burden on other maintainers when I work on
gtk).
It would be cool if
+ we could make some plan when to switch each dialog over, one by one
  (hard because we have to sync our work)
or
+ i would get osx and win32 devel env and could switch all the platforms
  at once (hard for me)

I have the feeling when we just switch dialog after dialog without
keeping platforms in sync (and still keep things buildable) we might
loose some of the advantages (maintainability) because of ifdefs in the
base classes.

If there's wide agreement that we want to use your new stuff we could
also say that for like, two weeks, everyone should try to focus on that.
(Only a suggestion)

Best,
- Rob
Received on Fri Feb 25 19:17:27 2005