[openbeos] Re: office suite(s)

>Yeah, to be honest, I never saw the real point or value in replicants.
>Ok, so it made for a good ActiveDesktop butt kicking, or would have, had
>enough applications been 'replicantable'. But what is the point of them?
>Ok, so I can drag a replicant of soundplay to other container
>application... why would I do this? Can someone give me an example of
>when I would want to do this?

Replicants can and should be *huge*.
Think about, oh, let's say, building a windowed game (i.e. not full screen).
You want an opening movie? You could embed a MediaPlayer replicant.
Online chat for the game? How about a (theoretical) OBOSChat client embedded.
Help? Embed Net+/Mozilla/whatever. 

>To me it seems it would be a lot more valuable if an Application could
>(by itself) request to have a system replicant embedded in it without
>user interaction.

It can. BeHappy does this. Other apps could. The tough part is making sure that
the application that you want to embed is already on the system.

>I mean wouldn't it be a lot more valuable for an application to say, "I
>need to display some information in the form of html... I'll load the
>Net+ replicant into myself and call up my page".

Sure. the drag/dropness of replicants isn't *as* useful as the embedability.

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