On Tuesday 29 July 2003 10:49 am, Andreas Raab wrote:
> On more thought: Perhaps we should generally have some menu where
> loaded packages can register themselves to provide additional
> information. For example, when you load some of the packages then
> they'll open up some workspace which is nice. But when you close
> the workspace it's gone. So I have a couple of images where I have
> a project full of workspaces about those packages but not in the
> places where I'd need them. Perhaps we should add some really
> dog-simple "packages" to the world menu which * serves as an
> overview about the packages you've loaded (I _really_ miss some
> quick way of checking what I have in any particular image) * serves
> as an entry point to have some "top-level information" about the
> project whatever this may be - could be a summary, links to places
> to start at, overview, tutorial whatever.

Rather than making yet another image-based registry, I think this 
would be a great use for the "annotations" that are part of the 
SMCard. After all, we *do* have a master registry for SM packages 
already.

I don't know exactly what the plan for these is (presumably there'll 
be some extensible namespace for these?), but this would let the 
author or anyone else add hooks.

Some of them might be examples, or documentation, or links to other 
packages. (or patches, bug reports, opinions, sample projects...)

And they could be shown as part of the SMCard description in SM tools.

Your menu or other way to access these could just iterate through the 
packages and their annotations to grab appropriate items.

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