[Glen]
Does anyone have a problem if I worked towards
removing the initialize() method from our
LayoutManager interface?
There is two way of looking at it. The code in initProperties() which can be moved to the ctor should be. That is no loss at all and will reduce complexity of the LMs a tiny bit.
But removing the initialize() method will reduce the flexibility that LMs currently has to retrieve information from the parent LM. Perhaps that flexibility is not used at the moment but I suspect that it will be needed to implement the irregular inheritence of properties like text-decoration.
regards, finn
