Re: [MiNT] BubbleGEM

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 15:07:04 , Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 12:41 +0000, Peter Slegg wrote:
>
> > > What is the advantage? IMO a BubbleGEM-replacement doesn't belong inside
> > > the AES anymore than e.g. TosWin does. Tooltip-functionality in the AES
> > > would be nice, but then implemented properly and not as a kludge.
> > >
> > BubbleGEM provides "tool-tip" functionality.
>
> Yes, but in what way would it be better to put this inside the AES
> instead of using a separate application?
>
> Jo Even



I think you answered your own question:

"So making a clean, non-blocking (using windows) BubbleGEM-clone is probably
the easiest and most flexible solution."

As a de-facto standard does it need to be loaded separately. Is there
any advantage to having it loadable ?

If the original protocol is a bit undesirable then perhaps it should
be deprecated and a better AES bubble-help system created ?

There aren't loads of apps that use it and users could either use the
old app or an API to the new system if absolutely necessary.

Peter