[Glade-devel] I'd like to know an architectural decision

[shprotx at gmail.com (Pavel Kostyuchenko)]

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Tristan Van Berkom
<tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Secondly, for me to be able to provide you with more useful information,
>  and for me to understand you better - you must please just state your
>  mission with glade, you say you are encountering these problems, what
>  exactly are you trying to do ?

http://code.google.com/soc/2008/gnome/appinfo.html?csaid=671C4A49E54095D0
And now I'm trying only to use glade in anjuta but it doesn't work
well, so I think at least the most important issues should be fixed.

>  Agreed, I introduced the one time idle (which is IMO more stable than a timeout)
>  when I made glade show the first widget in a project inside the workspace at
>  project load time.

That's good until somebody else uses idle too like Anjuta does.

>  The real root of this problem is that gtk+ does not support embedding
>  of toplevel
>  windows, the best way to deal with this would be to rally for support
>  in gtk+ and
>  provide patches to gtk+ to this effect, other than that there may be a
>  way to work
>  around the idle approach and make it all work synchronously, but it would also
>  be a hack and as they say "if its not broke dont fix it" :)

And what about GtkPlug?

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Regards,
Pavel