Hey Martin, When I maintained gnome-calculator I ported a bunch of Widgets to use GtkBuilder templates: https://blogs.gnome.org/tvb/2013/04/09/announcing-composite-widget-templates/
This allowed me to massively reduce my codebase as I turned the UI into content, I also used the chance to port many layouts from nested v/hboxes to the newer GtkGrid. GtkBuilder templates are generally encouraged and we even do so in Gtk+ itself. While glade is not perfect, moving my handcrafted UI code to .ui files certainly made my life easier as a maintainer. 2017-04-03 6:29 GMT+01:00 Martin Owens <docto...@gmail.com>: > Hi Gtk Devs, > > 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? > > Thanks for your help, Best Regards, Martin Owens > _______________________________________________ > gtk-devel-list mailing list > gtk-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list > -- Cheers, Alberto Ruiz
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