Re: Libglade officially deprecated in favor of GtkBuilder.

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 00:26 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The GNOME Release team has officially deprecated libglade in favor of
> GtkBuilder.
> 
> Some reasons:
> *  GtkBuilder is actively maintained.
> *  GtkBuilder can create non-widgets (like treemodels).
> *  It's one less library.
> 
> Aim is to get rid of libglade for GNOME 3.0. This is also covered by the
> schedule at http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentyseven .
> 
> For the status of your module see the "LibGlade" column in
> http://www.gnome.org/~fpeters/299.html .
> 
> For migration instructions see
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/gtk-migrating-GtkBuilder.html .
> 
> Also see http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/RemoveLibGladeUseGtkBuilder .

I think this is just slightly premature. GtkBuilder is still not fully
able to deal with multiple top-level-widgets per file, as was usual when
using libglade, and which is still supported by Glade's UI.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=575714

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