Re: [Discuss-gnustep] GNUstep should remain independent of any window manager.

[Christian Edward Gruber]

Sorry, wasn't clear.  I meant visually.  The original X idea, was to have 
applications do dock-like functions, but KDE/GNOME/WM/ETC. have begun to really 
alter that.  Heck even the menuing system in a WM, without connection to the 
Application is kind of wierd, and represents a slight paradigm difference 
between X and Cocoa/OpenStep, in my view.  It's not a big problem, but simply 
requires a partioning decision.  I personally think that a good bridge between 
the two is best, allowing the actual rendering of the menu to be in Window 
Manager land, but allowing the actual implementation of menu logic and events 
to be handled in the application framework.

Just a thought.

christian.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory Casamento" <borgheron@yahoo.com>
To: "Christian Edward Gruber" <christian.edward.gruber@gmx.net>; 
<discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 3:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnustep] GNUstep should remain independent of any window 
manager.


> 
> --- Christian Edward Gruber <christian.edward.gruber@gmx.net> wrote:
> > The problem here, is that a GNUstep dock implies a GNUstep workspace, which
> 
> Not necessarily.  Having a dock does not mean that it must be integrated
> into the same app as the workspace.  This was the way it was done under
> NeXTSTEP, but I believe that that has changed under MOSX.  We should
> follow thier example.