Re: Python Dock for Foal

I like this idea, it should probably dock [x|f]stroke as well. One
option I would like to see would eb the ability to presentation of the
launch items or at least have a option of using menu items rather than
buttons. This would make it easier to intergrate the debian menu
system as well. Another thing that would be good to have in foal and
also the other apps that people are (slowly :) starting to write is to
have the menu be on the same side of the screen as the user's hand is
to the device. This woudl allow navigation of the menu and wouldnt
block the screen. Another thing related tot his would be to have the
menus at the botton of the screen.

                                                Gareth

On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 02:35:16PM +0100, James ''Wez'' Weatherall wrote:
> I've been thinking about the idea of dynamically loading specified Python
> modules into Foal and then calling an entry function in them, to get stuff
> like clocks, cpuinfo and meminfo dockable apps. Two reasons for this:
>
> 1) I can't get general application docking to work...
> 2) Python is huge. Importing an extra module in the same address space
> to do something simple is much better than spawning extra interpreters,
> provided the module is robust...
>
> I might get around to adding this as a feature this weekend or next, but
> it would be nice to know whether people think there are problems with this
> approach.
>
> Cheers,
>
> James "Wez" Weatherall
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