[Openicc] Dynamic options for Oyranos

[Jon A. Cruz]

On Feb 13, 2008, at 10:49 PM, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:

> Am 13.02.08, 18:53 -0800 schrieb Jon A. Cruz:
>>
>> XUL solves the Mozilla problem of being able to pixel-tweak things  
>> for their
>> specific application's UI. However, to edit abstract information  
>> in a generic
>> way something like XForms is far more appropriate.
>>
>> http: //www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/
>> http: //xformsinstitute.com/essentials/
>
> Ah, thanks.
>
>> Then the core API could use that abstract information, and  
>> intermediate levels
>> could add very thin platform-specific glue layers (Qt, GTK,  
>> ncurses...)
>
> Yes, abstraction is the key.
>
>> This has been an approach I've discussed with the Scribus team in  
>> regards to
>> support for generic plugin mechanisms including settings, and has  
>> many
>> advantages.
>
> I'd probably be happy to use the mentioned plug-in mechanism. How far
> did you come with that. Is there more to read about beside the  
> Create wiki
> page?

I'll try to get more details going and up on some Wiki's. The main  
focus had been to implement this for Inkscape (which already has a  
bit of an abstract settings method). Now that the 0.46 release  
process is winding up, it is a good time to start laying out some  
details for this next round.