Perhaps you're both right. It would be entirely convenient for there to be a standardized interface with gui generating applications or extensions. And yes, such a standardized language as SQL is required for this kind of an undertaking. Maybe that's what needs to be done. Maybe someone with some experience and three fourths of a brain should whip up an RFC for a standardized interface for GUI apps (SGL -> Standardized GUI Language). Once the community has beaten around a bunch of ideas, a standard could be developed, and then we could work on the DBI equivalents for interfacing each GUI module or application via SGL. A standard has to start as an idea and become a standard. Of course there will be functionality within some specific GUI apps that would not be supported directly through the SGL, but eventually vendors/developers would include ways of accessing this functionality via extended SGL commands.

*shrug*

A lack of a standard is often an indication that a standard needs to be developed, rather than a sign that all movement in the direction of a standard is hopeless.

I think it would be rather keen.

-=rev=-

In reply to Re: User Interfaces by Reverend Phil
in thread User Interfaces by petesmiley

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