Re: dia and libglade

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

On 28.01.2006 14:46, Lars Clausen wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 22:41 +0900, pclouds wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > Are you Dia developers going to use libglade in Dia? I'm HIGifying
> > sheet dialogs, it would be easier using glade editor than edit code,
> > compile, run, see and code again.
>
>
> Not likely.  The one glade-generated dialog we have in the code is one
> of our worst maintainance nightmares.
BTW: you are both talking about the same dialog ;)

Many people have talked of glade-ification of Dia to tweak some highly
dynamic (in code) dialogs, e.g. the Preferences dialog or the StdProps
dialog.

While I don't have a problem with the glade dependency we should
definitely avoid using glade as code generator - as done for the
Sheets & Objects dialog.
Cleaning it up, that is separate the application logic in C from the
GUI building from XML would certainly be an improvement.

But only a well done patch could show that. If such a patch would
provide the same flexibility/simplicity like the current
implementation with the additional benefit of loading resources from
XML and thus having *less* code to maintain would be reconsidered.

        Hans

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