Re: [MiNT] Thing bug - Yes he is :)

[Standa Opichal <opichals@seznam.cz>]

On Tue, 7 May 2002, Maurits van de Kamp wrote:

> On 7 May 2002, Petr Stehlik wrote:
> 
> > Hmm, this sounds bad. Though I can hardly imagine that the original
> > authors would mind if you open sourced it.
> 
> In the Atari world, the problem is usually not the original authors
> refusing, but the original authors being either too lazy (Steinberg) or
> unreachable (Arno). :)

Thats it! I completely agree!

> > The example of drag&drop code really scared me. So how about using Thing
> > just as a valuable resource of ideas for writing a new desktop from
> > scratch?
> 
> What's the status on the other desktops like Ease and Kaos? Of course they
> haven't quite reached the status of Thing, but maybe they are more
> expandable?

This is another good idea.

> > That wouldn't be too hard to implement. And if the code was open
> > somebody would have already written it for you, I believe.
> 
> Well, things like scrolling textboxes sound so generic that I guess others
> could help there without having access to Thing's full sources?

Would it be a great problem to make an .SLB from the cflib? Or is it 
better to use gemma library? Maybe we can slowly add the features into 
gemma from cflib.
There should be some native AES support for such fields as well as many 
other GUI "needs" in the contemporary world. What about to focus to use 
fVDI, XaAES and FreeMiNT only for the new desktop? Just support GPL only 
components.

best regards

STan