[Glade-devel] Binding independent names

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Also when I said, "Window for GtkWindow", I meant "GtkWindow" would change to
just a "Window" not as-is. Anyway saying Window for Gtk sounds much better :D.

Archit

"John (J5) Palmieri" <johnp martianrock com> writes:

> On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 12:49, Paolo Borelli wrote:
> <snip>
> > I also don't like the idea of stripping of the Gtk* namespace, since you
> > could have a loadable library that offers its FooHBox or whatever.
> > IMHO glade is the _GTK_ gui builder, so calling the Gtk widgets with
> > their name (GtkHBox etc) is just fine.
>
> Well I didn't say stripping it.  I was more of the opinion of seperating
> it. So you have a dropdown list of packages to choose from and then a
> lookahead textbox that can predict what class you want from that
> package.  Archit's example on the tooltips "Window for GtkWindow" would
> just as simply be written "Window for Gtk".  Less verbose and keeps the
> meaning.  
>
> We all might be programmers but if we want to make this easy for newbies
> flooding them with GtkWindow when they might be writting Gtk.Window
> might be confusing.  If you split them from the begining they get used
> to the fact that Gtk is actualy seperate from Window.  Gtk is a
> windowing toolkit package and Window is a class of that package.
>
> --
> J5
>
> > ciao
> >     paolo