Re: Future developement, GtkUIManager XML Question?

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

On 22.02.2005 22:17, Alan Horkan wrote:
> The below extract from Bugzilla suggests the possibility of moving to
> GTKUImanager.
> The API describes GtkUIManager as "Constructing menus and toolbars from an
> XML description".
>
> I'm just wondering if we were to move to an XML system for the user
> interface why not go the next step and use Glade like Gnumeric and Abiword
> do?
Because there is absolutely no relation between the two becide coincidently
sharing XML as backend format ?

> Presumably there are downsides I'm not seeing but it isn't obvious
> to me so please do let me know.
Like Lars I completely fail to see a benefit of throwing away lots of quite
well debug user interface code just to give some non-programmers the
ability to totally screw up th user interface ;)

Also quite some of the user interface (Property (Default) Dialogs, Program
settings) are already created dynamically depending on context. So doing
such via glade would be a step backward rather tahn forward.


        Hans

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