On Thu, Tommi Komulainen wrote: > On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 10:27, ext todd wrote: > > Sridhar R wrote: > > > > >What about using XUL instead of glade-xml. Can > anyone > > >explain what makes glade-xml to be prefered > choice > > >over XUL. We (OSS community) need to standardize > on > > >technologies. Can anyone take initial step? > > [I'm just lurking on this list, the following > doesn't reflect the > position of the Glade team.]
> Well, I've been idly wondering why does Glade store > both structure and > style in the same XML file while others (XHTML + > CSS) are trying rather > hard to separate the two (more or less > successfully.) Oh!, that's great, something like which I was asking in this list before (about adding gtkstyle properties to properties). Also glade should support, styles like background-color for global widgets as well as for specific widgets. Nice feature. > > It should be rather straightforward to move spacings > and other > properties outside the XML file into a separate > stylesheet (using a > subset of CSS perhaps) and then you'd have something > quite similar to > XUL: > > <GtkWindow id="window1" _title="My Window"> > <GtkVBox id="vbox1"> > <GtkEntry id="entry1" value="" /> > <GtkEventBox id="eventbox1" /> > </GtkVBox> > </GtkWindow> > > Embedding code... that's probably a harder problem. > Embedding C code > feels uncomfortable at least for me and adding > JavaScript support is > quite a lot of work I guess. It would be nice to be > able to define > 'Keep this button insensitive while this entry is > empty' in the Glade > model, though. > > > -- > Tommi Komulainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --__--__-- ===== "World domination. Fast." (By Linus Torvalds) --- Sridhar R Email: r_sridhar xATx users xDOTx sf xDOTx net WWW: http://sridhar.has.it Blog: http://sridhar.blog-city.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ _______________________________________________ Glade-devel maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/glade-devel
