XML based UI? (was: Re: Platform Independent vs. Platform Specific Behavior (was: Re: [libreoffice-design] Take inspiration from Lotus Symphony ?))

Hi Kohei, hi Scott!

Kohei, thanks for the helpful information here ... great that you're
listening here (especially since I know your workload...)!

Am Freitag, den 29.04.2011, 10:25 -0400 schrieb Kohei Yoshida:
> On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 23:15 -0600, Scott Pledger wrote:
> > Is there any chance of implementing any kind of an XML-based UI template?
> >  Something similar to XUL may be a good place to start...
>
> We don't have any concrete vision of what the VCL replacement should
> look like, but making UI definition files XML-based is surely a sane
> approach.  In fact, when we attempted to replace it at one point, we did
> use an XML-based UI definition format.  Some of these files are still
> around in the code base though we are on their way out.
>
> So, yeah, XML-based UI definition format is very likely.

As far as I know, there have been several attempts to solve this issue.
For example, at the OOoCon 2010 I attended a presentation related to XML
based UI declaration ...

http://www.ooocon.org/index.php/ooocon/2010/paper/view/199
(see also the presentation download)

Sun/Oracle also thought about that ... during my visit in Hamburg early
2010, we discussed how e.g. toolpanes might ideally behave - some
improvements about what we have today. Here, "ideally" mainly refers to
its technical behavior to detach/attach them anywhere. In this
discussion, XML based UI stuff was mentioned as well. Here is the blog
post - no technical relevance, but maybe interesting:
http://uxopenofficeorg.blogspot.com/2010/01/ux-meeting-in-hamburg-day-two.html

Cheers,
Christoph

PS: You may have noticed that my availability is a bit bad at the
moment ... so sorry for not commenting the other threads at the moment
"in time".


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