[Glade-devel] Glade Menu Editor for Glade3

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Hi

Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com> writes:
> > If you two are done fixing you last major patches, I could consider glade-3
> > reasonably stable to branch (again, if indeed its needed).
>
> I'm not very familiar with branches, but I think that if you decide to
> branch to work on the menu editor you can do it whenever you want: since
> it's a self contained piece of code, it should not be affected by other
> changes.

Yes but I would like to branch at a stage when the rest of the code is stable.
Like I said, I don't want to bump into bugs (atleast not eh trivial ones), on
my way to fixing the Menu Editor.

 
> While I'm at it let me write some random thoughts/questions/ideas about
> the menu editor:

I was going to send a similar followup email too :D

> * It seems to me that in gtk-2.4 the menu widget has been completely
> overhowled, with the integration of the menu stuff that was in egg. Does
> this affect the menu editor? (I think that when gtk2.4 comes out we
> should start supporting its new widgets, and probably at some point
> switch completely to 2.4 as a requirement)

IIRC its the toolbar not the menubar. Again I have to confirm this.

> * A boring, but badly needed change is switching the current menu editor
> from gtkclist to gtktreeview: AFAIK is the only thing (modulo minor
> stuff) preventing us to compile with -DGTK_DISABLE_DPERECATED

Ofcourse. The current code in the glade-menu-editor.[ch] code is copied
verbatim from glade-2. Besides that we'll also need to put in some catalog
xml files for GtkMenubar, GtkMenuItem, GtkMenu.

> * A review/simplification of the ui of the menu editor is probably
> needed: maybe we should try to get some inputs (even better mockups)
> from users and ui experts.

Indeed, if there was some previous discussion on major changes regarding this
for glade-2 we should keep them in mind too.

> * Sometimes ago there was some discussion about changing the way
> accelerators for the menu entries work; in particular may be worth
> trying to get rid of the key selection dialog and investigate if the
> accelerator stuff in libegg fits our needs (you can see it working in
> GnomeTerminal keyboard shortcuts editor)

Yup

> * We must remember that the menu editor is also used for the optionmenu
> widget and not only for the menubar. This is probably related to find a
> way to specify the "Edit menu" button in the xml file of the widget
> class instead of the hack we have now. (Note that this is not strictly
> related to the menu editor code itself and may interact/conflict with
> Joaquin changes to the catalogs)

I think a simple "can_have_menus" or something simlar xml property would
be all that would be required (and subsquent changes to glade_widget_class_new_from_node).

> ciao
>       paolo

ciao
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