On Mon, 2017-04-03 at 01:29 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: > 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?
I wrote this horror a long time ago: http://www.hadess.net/2009/04/because-i-suck-at-glade.html I'm pretty sure you could reimplement this in the inspector without too much trouble, even if it would likely suck codewise. HTH _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
