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Re: [MiNT] BubbleGEM



8 jan 2011 kl. 07.36 skrev Jo Even Skarstein:

> On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 00:58 +0100, Peter Persson wrote:
> 
>>> Is there an advantage of integrating it with the AES? A windowed
>>> replacement shouldn't be hard to write, after all it's just a matter of
>>> displaying up to 256 characters of plain text.
>> 
>> There are a few standard add-ons on the platform for which there are well defined protocols. I think it would be nice to have those things in the AES, since they're defacto standard. However, I'm not asking anyone to do that for me :) I'm just saying it would be nice.
> 
> 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.

I'm not familiar with the inner workings of BubbleGEM. Is it a kludge because the protocol/API itself is bad, or because of a bad implementation?

-- PeP