Re: ANN: GWorkspace 0.6.5

[Stefan Urbanek]

On 2004-06-07 18:56:26 +0200 Nicolas Roard <nicolas@roard.com> wrote:

> 
> Le 7 juin 04, à 17:26, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf a écrit :
>> Let me chime in here. I must also confess that i like the modular approach
>> more than the monolithic approach. Things are easier to exchange if you
>> don't like several parts and also easier to replace, since you won't need
>> to write a whole WorkspaceManager, if you don't like - for instance - the
>> desktop part.
>> 
>> The modular approach is also very UNIX like where traditionally many small
>> pieces make up the whole system (remember that "If UNIX was a plane" -
>> joke? There is some truth in it - for good) In contrast there is Windows
>> where you even can't replace the webbrowser or the mediaplayer easily.
>> please keep that in mind :-)
> 
> While in general it really make sense to have modular approach, I confess 
> that I'm confused with GWorkspace as it it. Having modular things, ok. But it 
> should have been bundles then, not separate applications. I really don't see 
> why Inspector.app or Operations.app are applications...
> 
> But well, I now understand why Enrico did that (to have clean separate 
> parts); it's just that I really hope that in the future the code will be 
> gathered in ONE app (but with the code in bundles, that could be interesting, 
> I agree).
> 

Maybe a drawing of the current state and desired state would help. What do you 
think? It is better to think when you have diagrams in front of your eyes. 
Would it be possible to visualise current GWorkspace? Like: what are apps, what 
are bundles, what are frameworks and how they are connected together and how 
they copmmunicate.

Stefan