Re: [Libvisual-devel] Re: xmms plugin

[Dennis S. <sy...@yo...>]

On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 18:17 -0300, Duilio Javier Protti wrote:
> > What are your plans after it's finished ?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Dennis
> 
> Well, I want to implement the per-plugin configure dialog, which
> will allow set the values for the param entries.
> 
> I'll do it generating standard widgets depending on the type
> of each entry. I think this would be better than wait VisUI.
> 
> I was thinking about VisUI, and I'm convinced now that we must
> not implement this module. Developers have whithin libvisual 
> framework all what they need to implement his own UI's.
> 
> Without VisUI we have less dependency on the target, and
> less work will be required on a port. But well, is just my
> opinion :-)

I think that parsing just the VisParamEntries won't provide a nice
user interface experience, especially when it comes to big
lists of VisParamEntries. The VisUI module could give some hints
to the UI builder like, grouping, what kind of input entry, lay
restrictions on the input. VisUI won't be complex, or big, it's just
a few extra hints so a way nicer UI can be build.

My 2cents.

Cheers,
Dennis