I'd like to bring up some things about 'e' and gui-toolkits.
I know this has been a source of some friction here before, but
I'd like to be able to discuss various aspects in a serious and
rational way.. Hopefully, the toolkit devs themselves will be able
to help in this and see areas of interest they'd like to bring up.
There are many aspects to something as complex as a high-
level gui-toolkit lib, but one that is important for 'e' is
"themability". This allows for consistent and yet variable 'look&
feel' for apps built with them.
I wonder though if one can write apps with e's toolkits
that would allow for 'overriding' the toolkit's theme (with an
app-provided edje goup say), for a given toolkit widget? Also, is it
possible to build 'custom widgets' that can be given app-specific
theming? Just how flexible can/should 'theming' be?
In a slightly different vein.. Is there something like the
equivalent of e17's modules for the gui-toolkits -- does something
like that even make sense?
There are of course many other aspects of interest, not
necessarily related to theming, and I wonder if the toolkit
devs have any thoughts or ideas they feel would be interesting,
or things they feel 'e' should support, ...
eg. I've sometimes seen references to kde's "kio slaves"
and "kparts"... Can anyone tell me exactly what these things are
and why they are considered useful? Are these kinds of things
something that a gui-toolkit should have, or are they more like
an ecore-lib? Is there a coherent relationship between such things
and say e_dbus, evfs, ....??
Much of this looks like a kind of multi-tiered jigsaw-puzzle
to me... What is the "big picture" here? And how do the "pieces" fit
together?
jose.
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