Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > no need to Cc me: I'm subscribed to the list. > > On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 17:38 -0600, Yevgen Muntyan wrote: > > >>>> I don't believe that any data passed to a library should result in a >>>> fatal warning, surely a GError return would be a far better option >>>> here. >>>> >>> this is data building your UI: it screams design tool, developer or >>> packager error, and I would expect GtkBuilder to error out very, very >>> quickly. if it were user input, or application data it would have >>> been a >>> completely different story - but the UI layout of an application *is* >>> the application, it's not user data. >>> >> But nobody can tell that the particular chunk of XML is >> "the UI layout of an application". >> > > you can tell: you must have put that XML somewhere. or loaded it from > somewhere. it's part of your application, like the code in your source > tree. >
*Part*. Just like the code in my source tree, it shouldn't bomb out if something goes wrong. Broken glade file is no justification for lost data. Glade file for a frobnicator dialog is not "the UI layout of an application" without which the behavior of the application is undefined. > >> It's not gtk_main_form(), >> it's gtk_parse_this_xml_and_build_something_of_it(). >> > > > >> A plugin loading its UI from xml, is it user data, application >> data, or ...? (I don't quite understand how a glade file in >> /usr/share may or may not be The UI and not data, but then >> I also don't understand how people write applications which need >> a glade file on disk to start, so that's another story) >> > > there you go, then. > Do you what? > >> Anyway, libglade doesn't crash, so it's a regression ;) >> > > it's not a segfault, it's a GError; It's a crash for a user. SIGSEGV or SIGABRT is details for the developer. > and GtkBuilder is a completely new > implementation that doesn't even load the same files unless you pass > them through a converter, so it's not a "regression". > GtkBuilder is supposed to be a replacement for libglade, no? Yevgen _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
