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Dan Armak wrote: |
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> Do screen definitions live in the arch templates, so that a FE only knows |
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> about individual UI elements? |
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Probably and most likely, yes. |
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> If so, how do are the screens described in a |
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> FE-independant way? |
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As XML which the arch templates are. Think of something similar to the |
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way glade works for gtk, but much more generic. |
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> Or does a FE know what each screen looks like? |
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It has to since it has to be displayed. |
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The view glue and implementation information is obviously absent from |
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the class diagram. That is not a mistake. It's just that the view code / |
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system will, most likely, be the most complex part of the installer. If |
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we didn't have to worry about multiple UIs, multiple archs, changing |
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steps and stages, and generics, we'd be on better ground, but that would |
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be directly against our design goals. :) |
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Eric Sammer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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http://www.gentoo.org |
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