>Greg or John, can you re-post the entire original message?

Here's the original thread:

On Wednesday, March 18, 2009, at 08:53AM, "John Pritchard" <[email protected]> 
wrote:
>There's plenty of cool inner classes, but there are too many inner classes.
>And the ApplicationContext$DisplayHost (family) are first class examples of
>the kind that really should not be inner classes.   They're too heavy ..
>
>Dropping the heavier inner classes would be a cheap and easy way to cut the
>pivot learning curve by ten or twenty percent..
>
>ps ((the graphics code pointed my simple nose toward 'wtk/skin'..
>but of course i can see that moving DisplayHost to "wtk/skin" would not be
>good
>maybe "wtk/context" or "wtk/window"))
>
>
>On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Greg Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> DisplayHost is not really part of the skin. It is our "window" (again, no
>> pun) into the native UI. Skins are a different concept.
>>
>> BTW, I don't agree with the "< 10 line" principle - we have lots of inner
>> classes that are longer than 10 lines. To me, inner classes are simply a way
>> to partition your namespace, just like packages.
>>
>> On Wednesday, March 18, 2009, at 08:02AM, "John Pritchard" <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>> ><sanity-warning>
>> >
>> >the "ApplicationContext$DisplayHost" (and peers, no pun intended)
>> definitely needs to move to "wtk/skin"
>> >
>> >(Related truism: any inner class more than ten lines [in Pivot's case]
>> needs to export)
>> >
>> >sometimes your conscience only looks like another person
>> >call it karma
>> >
>> >or.. file under.. "things to do before it's too late"
>> >
>> ></sanity-warning>
>> >
>>
>

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