Hello fellow hackers, Simply put, this is a call for aid. Normally I obviously wouldnt try to explicitly solicit help this way (and I've never been good with project PR anyway) but in light of GTK+'s progress over recent times I feel its my responsibility here to make a statement because Glade is bigger than my own personal interest and hobby, its a part of GNOME and all our interests.
First let me explain my vision - I believe that Glade can and should play a major role in all the porting work that may be done in the near future in light of the new GtkBuilder api, and now, work on GTK+3.0 (since 3.0 is announced to be api compatible with GTK+2.0 minus deprecations we can probably expect to see people to be writing 3.0 savy code from now on). What we plan to offer is a tool that will allow you to load & save your Glade file in either format and also chose what major and minor GTK+ version you are targeting, so that you know that every widget, property and signal is available in that version and even know if its deprecated. (ofcourse we also want fancy treeview editors and lots of powerful new features, but thats already obvious ;-)). That vision may seem far fetched, but the few of you who have Glade trunk know that we already have those features ! its running smoothly but there are still bugs, tedious detail bugs, plus we dont have normal menus loading in GTK+ yet using GtkBuilder - nor do we have a tedious little GtkUIManager object editor - so no menus in the new format yet. I don't have my head wrapped around all the blockers right now but suffice it to say were not going to have Glade 3.6 ready for GNOME 2.24, for this, we are sorry. We're just a team of 2 occasional developers (typically we go on binges every once and a while and get things done that way). So with that, I think the bottom line is: I think this is a critical time for Glade in GNOME, because I think the afore mentioned features can significantly help encourage developers to use new GTK+, and help ease the pain of porting GTK+ apps all around. If you agree - then you are invited to help us make it happen. Thank you all for your attention. Cheers, -Tristan _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list