On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 15:55 -0500, Yevgen Muntyan wrote: > Owen Taylor wrote: > > >>It's, err, wrong to claim that another piece of soft is perfect, and > >>make this piece of soft "perfect assuming that's perfect", > >>and say "is that's not perfect, complain about it, but this piece of > >>soft will still assume that piece of soft is perfect". > >>Are we living in ideal world yet? > >> > >> > > > >No, it's not wrong. If GtkUIManager was part of some other system, > >then maybe we might want to work around its problems, not try to fix > >them. > > > >But that's not the case here. Its part of GTK+. > > > > > You are not taking into account that people outside have > to work around GTK problems, or they do something in a way > "not supported because we have a perfect thing here". > This "works for me or I'll fix it" may work only for gtk > developers, not for others.
You are arguing for the GTK+ developers (apparently you don't consider yourself one) to add one feature to GTK+, instead of fixing another. > This reminds me of GtkTextView::cursor-moved thing. > "What really needs to be done is to do it right", and as the effect, > *nothing*. This list is for people who want to fix things in GTK+, not for people who want to complain about things not being fixed by others... > >glade or replacement UI builders will suck much more if there are two > >ways of creating menus in them. Inevitably. > > > > > So far here were words of two ui builders authors: Johan who > writes gazpacho and makes GtkUIBuilder work well with Gazpacho > and vice versa, and Tristan who dislikes the idea of "only > GtkUIManager" :) There has been a fair bit of quoting without attribution on this thread, and I don't think Tristan's mail has made it to the list at all, so I can't really comment. Owen _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list