These guys live in Morphic, and they thus cause a whole bunch of things to depend on Morphic.
While I do think something called "TheWorldMenu" is rather clearly a UI thing, I don't think it's necessarily a _Morphic_ thing.
One way to approach this is to move TheWorldMenu and TheWorldDockingBar into another package. Perhaps System-Support, because that's where Project lives. Or perhaps System-World.
Then we move all Morphic referencing methods to *Morphic, and so on. There are a fair number of these!
Alternatively, we implement a registry thing, and TheWorldMenu and TheWorldDockingBar reference this registry to build its list of tools.
Thoughts?
frank
While I do think something called "TheWorldMenu" is rather clearly a UI thing, I don't think it's necessarily a _Morphic_ thing.
I think the "basic desktop UI" could be considered part of Morphic. If other UI frameworks want to have a "world menu" they will implement their own rather cloning Morphic's.
One way to approach this is to move TheWorldMenu and TheWorldDockingBar into another package. Perhaps System-Support, because that's where Project lives. Or perhaps System-World.
Then we move all Morphic referencing methods to *Morphic, and so on. There are a fair number of these!
Alternatively, we implement a registry thing, and TheWorldMenu and TheWorldDockingBar reference this registry to build its list of tools.
There is already WorldMenuProvider which is part of the Services framework. We should investigate whether that could/should be used before implementing new stuff.
On 1 June 2013 16:46, Chris Muller asqueaker@gmail.com wrote:
While I do think something called "TheWorldMenu" is rather clearly a UI thing, I don't think it's necessarily a _Morphic_ thing.
I think the "basic desktop UI" could be considered part of Morphic. If other UI frameworks want to have a "world menu" they will implement their own rather cloning Morphic's.
Well, it's just a name. If Morphic wants to keep it it should have a MorphicWorldMenu. "TheWorld" sounds bigger than Morphic. Regardless, we need a way for apps (like the MC tools) to say "hey, I think I'm important enough to warrant a menu item if this UI has such a thing".
One way to approach this is to move TheWorldMenu and TheWorldDockingBar into another package. Perhaps System-Support, because that's where Project lives. Or perhaps System-World.
Then we move all Morphic referencing methods to *Morphic, and so on. There are a fair number of these!
Alternatively, we implement a registry thing, and TheWorldMenu and TheWorldDockingBar reference this registry to build its list of tools.
There is already WorldMenuProvider which is part of the Services framework. We should investigate whether that could/should be used before implementing new stuff.
I'll take a look at the WorldMenuProvider. It sounds promising!
frank
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