Re: [ros-dev] ReactOS UI Team - Concept, Plan, and: help wanted

[Rick Langschultz]

Actually a utility or an explorer like integration with a scripting  
language would be a great idea for reactos, however I don't think it  
is ready for such a feature yet.
I have been working on a port of a product which is very critical to  
development of reactos, however i don't want to share what it is yet...

lets just say reactos will be up to speed on internet serving when  
TCP/IP gets up and running... in the form of application servers.
On Oct 12, 2005, at 6:35 AM, David Hinz wrote:

>   Maritn "E.T." Misuth schrieb:
>
>
> >   Just a stupid idea,
> >
> >  why not fully Mozilla's embrace XPUI ( maybe with some micro  
> >  aditions)
> >  and use it for everythnig GUI related?
> >
> >  I mean, if I got it right from what I was reading, XPUI is XML system
> >  for describing GUI layout and is binded to C++ code which forms
> >  application. This way application programmer is fully shielded from
> >  programming UI's and inversely UI designer can design almost anything
> >  without the need to recompile the whole stuff. This allows to change
> >  UI's really quickly and test several concepts without even  
> >  changing the
> >  actual code in app. Try opening FireFox AboutBox within browser tab
> >  using chrome:\\ url or even try to open the browser window with
> >  menubars, tabs and everything within itself, and you'll get what I  
> >  mean.
> >  Gecko is said to be fast so this shouldn't be a problem.  
> >  Possiblities to
> >  completely change UIs are then endless and can be done relatively
> >  quickly and I bet that even those theme wankers would be happy with
> >  something like that. Even twisted M$ is going to use some XML crap  
> >  for
> >  their GUI description system and I bet sooner or later Linux and the
> >  rest of the world will follow (if it already there isn't some own  
> >  work
> >  like that). XPUI is there, I know it might not be the best XML UI
> >  solution, but it is open source and already present, so I was  
> >  thinking
> >  it might be good idea. Anyone who has some background in html and
> >  javascript can extend such resources, plus icons can be PNG's  
> >  which are
> >  really portable. Sure the apps might get bigger but some can get
> >  smaller, and with todays HDD's this shouldn't be a problem. And  
> >  mainly,
> >  once such XPUI port will be done, FireFox for ReactOS download  
> >  could be
> >  made, propably, smaller because that XPUI library would be core  
> >  part of
> >  the system ;)...
> >
> >  You know my dream is having cool HW openGL accelerated XML based  
> >  Windows
> >  Classic like UI with SVG icons, which is pure utopia as I, myself, am
> >  not able to code such a thing ;)) (but I dream and hope that someone
> >  will) :)
> >
> >  And remember this is just stupid idea.
> >  E.T.
> >
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> >
> >  
>  Actually I don't think, that this is just a stupid idea.
>
>  I thought of writing the whole UI in a new language, that is HTML/ 
>  PHP like and can use something like AppleScript.
>  The whole UI would be some kind of webpage, but the language would  
>  be completely new designed, so that ii is not static and needs to  
>  be reloaded after some time.
>  You could have something like frames and iframes, which can be  
>  moved over the whole screen.
>  That would be a big thing to implement, but everybody can then  
>  easily write a new UI the way he likes.
>
>  Just anoher stupid idea...
>
>  Greets,
>
>  David Hinz
>
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