[Osr-101] Re: [Yulup] Rethinking Widget support

[Andreas Wuest]

Hi Thomas

On 19.1.2007 17:59 Uhr, Thomas Comiotto wrote:

> Hi Andi
> 
>>
>> Are you thinking along the lines of XBL/XBL2 here? I think Alex 
>> Vincent is doing something similar for Verbosio.
>>
> 
> Well, yes. But binding st to sot is where the similarities end of course.

Well, then...

>> I don't know if this really covers all our bases. For example, users 
>> like to reconfigure e.g. a table, which was already inserted into the 
>> document. For this to work, we have to somehow install a context menu 
>> entry, which is not only accessible when selecting the table directly 
>> (which may not be possible at all btw, because a click on a table 
>> always goes directly to the nearest-by cell), but also when selecting 
>> a table cell. Or users like to end a link which they are currently 
>> inserting, and insert text after the link.
> 
> AFAICS this is GUI related stuff and therefore OT.

Nope, it's not, because we have to have a way to hook behaviour into our 
GUI based on what those bindings specify.

My point is that it may not be possible to give enough information in 
the binding to get enough UI behaviour out of it.

> I did not refer to 
> yulup's GUI (or Michi's notion of "widgets" for that matter) but to how 
> generic formatting components can be bound to the data model in use.
> 
> Again, I think we should debate this on the neutron list.

We are on the Neutron list... ;)

-- 
Kind regards,
Andi