[shell-coding] [Common Elements] Just a thought

Lately I've been surfin the web visiting sites that deal with shell development or shell "relevance" and seen alot of work is being duplicated. For an example I seen from a couple of sites with UI controls/elements being written which have the same basic functionality with a added feature or two with the author signature of course, and maybe the appearance tweaked abit. Another disturbing image was that I peaked in some source code and seeing logic being repeated and alot of it shared the same common startup procedures. I too have fallen under this very category re inventing the wheel abit too and finding it cumbersome and restless, Im wanting to peek into the future , Im wanting to see shells rely on the same structure or common/base arcitecture. I've learned from one of the greatest beast (Microsoft) that standards and guidelines is the true foundation, those guys live by an oath if you will, and they continue to build from that foundation. Some say MFC for example, has some poor functionality which is fine, but if you review it from documentation and source code, you can see the structure of its design and how it evolves from a common platform or ground. The structure to me is facinating, I can see the ease of managebility even in .NET, in my opinion .NET is very organized. . I would like to see shells interact closely with one another just as MS Office apps bind together, thats where I want to go , I mean to think if I the user could snag a cool Litestep mod and be able to run it interchangebly in say SharpE without the need to recode this mod twice. I'm a geoshell and Litestep user and love both shells dearly, there are some funtionality in both shells that I wish was all in one (In perfect world this would be fabulous). These two shells are good but its having to switch one from another in order achieve certain things and of course I could write these functionalities out to support either or but who would do that. Im want us to be strong tight family, and when I say us I mean the whole shell community, we are very special individuals with great talents and I don't want to see this great thing die as most things do. More and more Im seeing abandoned projects and ideas, I wanting to know "whats happened" that these goals and inspiration are thrown in the trash. But these are just my thoughts ...

 

I thank you for your kind attention

-Matrice(64)