Hi, On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 01:29:01AM -0400, Martin Owens wrote: > I'm brining this up in devel mailing list because it might not be > possible to do well enough, but I'm interested in raising the question > of moving projects from widget code to glade ui files. > > I work on Inkscape. The next version of Inkscape (0.93) will be Gtk3 > and Gtk2 is now removed from our codebase. But we're still generating > all of our widget trees in-code and is kinda hurts redesigning our > dialogs. > > Is it worth moving to glade for parts of a large gtk3 app, does it help > with css adjustments at all and would it be an acceptable patch to make > the gtkinspector dump out our existing widget trees (it would be really > nice to have it generate glade xml, but that's just silly right). At > least getting the data out of the inspector and into a python script > for generating the xml would be a start. > > Any ideas, or thoughts?
Glade is not well maintained, some developers prefer to edit the XML files directly, which is not really convenient. At least by writing C/C++ code, you have compilation warnings when using deprecated functions. Personally I prefer writing code instead of using GtkBuilder, but that's just my preference. With code it's easy to write re-usable functions, in XML files it is not possible. -- Sébastien _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
