Re: [Gnumed-devel] switchable layout managers

[Karsten Hilbert]

> > The way mini-gnumed does it:
> > the main screen is divided into a toprow (to area of screen), a 
> > notebookarea 
> > (left side of screen), an upper and lower toolarea (right side of screen, 
> > on 
> > top of each other.
> > These areas are separated by resizable borders ("sashes"), the GUI 
> > remembers 
> > the position of the sashes in it's configuration registry.
> This what we plan to do. However we must optionalise all of this via 
> pluggable layout managers
> as some insist on preserving the status quo.  
No. We don't need to optionalise *all* of this. We only need
to optionalise which inner-frame (spell "layout manager") to
load ! Other than that what's *inside* that layout manager can
be hardcoded for all I care. Heck it even *could* be hardcoded
inside if someone so wants ! This was the idea I had with the
original Richard-space -- why would anyone use an elaborate
framework for Richard space plugins when by all odds all
"plugins" would always be loaded in it anyways ?

> This is what we had before and is completely useless.
> Putting Richard's layout (or yours, there's basically the same) *inside* a 
> notebook page makes the GUI unusably slow
> to navigate and destroys the benefit of the sidebar.
Which implies that people want a sidebar. I think that is
*your* design idea - which is fine. More power to you --
inside your layout manager :-)   Again, is this "approved" by
Richard as being "equivalent enough" to Richard space ? Not
that it matters but if not it should be called Ian space
instead (again, which is fine).

Karsten
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