On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 11:01, Dom Lachowicz wrote: > > I also tend not to want more library dependencies. > > What about adding this stuff only for the Gnome > > build? > > This defeats the proposed purposes for using glade. > > Win32 has RC files to aide in the creation and storage > of dialogs, created by DevC. > > Cocoa has NIB files to aide in the creation and > storage of dialogs, created by InterfaceBuilder. > > I see no difference in using glade on the unix > platforms. Further, it is a standard library installed > by every Linux distribution. > > Ideally, using glade will enable us to make prettier, > more user-friendly HIG-complaint dialogs with less > fuss and more quickly. If this comes at the expense of > some user not knowing that his AbiWord is linked > against libglade (coz in all likelihood it's already > installed) then so be it. It's a trade-off that I'm > more than willing and eager to make in order that our > product comes off looking more polished and friendly > with (potentially significantly) less effort. > > Adding a 100k library dependancy for these purposes > should not be construed as bloat. >
I basically 100% agree with Dom and I'm looking forward to HIG - ized dialogs starting with Format Footnotes :-) I finally read a bit of it and it's clear that doing this properly is much more easily done with glade. Cheers Martin > Dom > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- Martin Sevior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> University of Melbourne
