On 21 March 2013 12:21, James Hunt <[email protected]> wrote:
> @vorlon - I have been in two minds about even putting a gui tool into the 
> upstream package; we already have a few scripts which set some sort of 
> precedent, but they are all cli-based.
>
> Adding gui tools is naturally going to increase the dependencies. To try and 
> minimise these, I've coded the monitor to not need any GUI libraries to keep 
> the spec for actually using this utility (in some fashion) to a minimum. 
> However, I'd personally rather not also require additional tooling like Glade 
> as it increases the requirements and might be an extra barrier to entry (well 
> for some - for others not using Glade might be one I suppose).

Glade is a point&click interface to load/edit/save GtkBuilder xml,
which is loaded directly by GtkBuilder. So there is no extra
dependencies. One can write GtkBuilder xml by hand, which you already
do for menus in your code.

Regards,

Dmitrijs.

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