I really like the idea of this, I think it has alot of the same concepts of the Linux Standard Base <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base</a> in terms of portability, but I don't think a universal package type would be probable or practical. I do like the idea of writing a "controller" program that does all the functions needed by a service and then allows each community to simply code the "view" of each to tend to their project by calling functions/methods or by passing the controller commands.... a good resource on this would be the model-view-controller design pattern <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-view-controller">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-view-controller</a> -Adam <div>On 11/12/06, Jan Claeys <<a href="mailto:lists@janc.be">lists@janc.be</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Op zondag 12-11-2006 om 16:33 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Jelle de Jong: > My vision is to create a widget system that is universal for all GUI > systems. So a gnome application could be ported to trolltec or GTK > etcetera. Well, it should be possible to write a Qt-backend for e.g. wxWidgets... Don't ever expect such a widget system to look good on all systems though.  Most likely it will look somehow out-of-place on *all* OSs & desktops (like wxWidgets does...). -- Jan Claeys -- xubuntu-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel </a> </blockquote></div> -- -=:Max:=- --OpenPGP key: 5DBFA065--