Hi everybody,
I have discussed the previous week with Nicolas at FOSDEM and he has
convinced NSDataLink related classes (from OpenStep) partially
implemented in GNUstep currently (but not in Cocoa), could provide us a
simple and efficient way to add document orientation to Étoilé
applications… It would be a first step before thinking how to move to a
more evolved components architecture later.
- First step would be to add basic document orientation without
changing GNUstep applications UI interaction model.
- Next step would be to tailor the UI in order to better fit the
document orientation paradigm.
- Last step would be the components architecture (with set of loadable
components to customise skeleton-like applications for advanced tasks
and your own workflow)
I have just taken a look at the new LinkBack
<http://www.linkbackproject.org/> project initiated by Nisus (with an
open source framework), it looks fairly similar to the first goal I
have just outlined over, but the framework is currently limited
compared to NSDataLink stuff, then it looks strange Nisus didn't choose
to reimplement NSDataLink & co on their side rather to create new API
from scratch.
I need to read the documentation and the code more attentively however
I admit :-)
Anyway I'm quite sure we could implement LinkBack compatiblity on top
of NSDataLink & co.
What do you think ?
Quentin.
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Quentin Mathé
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