On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 06:14:26PM +0100, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote:
feature #302961: Integrated Software Management Application, which means basically integrate the repository editor with the package management application makes me think we are missing something in the YaST framework which I saw recently in the Android platform.
Android separates each view in an activity. Each Activy chains with others (to generate a workflow) by generating Intents, and Activities can filter and respond to Intents too. (http://code.google.com/android/intro/anatomy.html)
The idea is, if you wrte an application, and you need to edit a contact, or to select an geo-address. Your application don't care how you do it. It is not hardcoded. The activity generates an intent of "edit contact", or "select point in earth" and other activities will be launched, which of course registered ther capabilities. This allow the workflows to perform the tasks by selecting 1) the best 2) the user prefered, component to do the job.
So the key concepts seem to be choice and alternatives, right?
I think YaST is in the need of something similar, where modules could launch sub activities without knowing much about them. At least this would solve problems like integrating launching other modules from a module, and also would allow modules to be easily replaced and avoid all the hardcoding. What do you think?
Can you give more concrete examples? -- Martin Vidner, YaST developer http://en.opensuse.org/User:Mvidner Kuracke oddeleni v restauraci je jako fekalni oddeleni v bazenu -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org