I've got a few new ideas in mind that we may be able to pull some of the code from vcl into... See the below excerpt from the 'New Layout Concept - Update' that I just posted:
*> I'm working on that, too. From what I can see of the old graphical layout * *> utility that we use, there is no way for us to create this in an easy fashion. * *> What I think we can do, however, is to replace the old vcl library with * *> something new. I'm looking at using XUL instead, but the problem so far* *> that I'm running into is that XUL really prefers the backend code to be* *> mostly javascript. So what I'm thinking we may wish to do is to replace* *> vcl with something that has the same API but that uses custom xml, svg,* *> and css to describe the forms that we need it to make however this is* *> going to be a lot of work as I don't really see any other F/OSS libraries to* *> pull from... Any other suggestions would be really helpful!* Yours Truly, Scott R. Pledger On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 08:25, Kohei Yoshida <kyosh...@novell.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 23:15 -0600, Scott Pledger wrote: > > Is there any chance of implementing any kind of an XML-based UI template? > > Something similar to XUL may be a good place to start... > > We don't have any concrete vision of what the VCL replacement should > look like, but making UI definition files XML-based is surely a sane > approach. In fact, when we attempted to replace it at one point, we did > use an XML-based UI definition format. Some of these files are still > around in the code base though we are on their way out. > > So, yeah, XML-based UI definition format is very likely. > > Kohei > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@libreoffice.org > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
