[Glade-devel] Why Glade 3 removes unknown elements

[juanpablougarte at gmail.com (Juan Pablo Ugarte)]

On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 23:08 +0900, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> Right... that's the last Glade which supports GTK+2.x
>
> Actually Glade >= 3.10 can be used for projects targeting GTK+2 but special
> care needs to be taken to avoid using any widgets that are new in GTK+3.
>
> The main reason Glade 3.10 does not support GTK+2 is because Glade >= 3.10
> needs to link against GTK+ 3 to provide new widgets and features...
>
> This basically means that Glade >= 3.10 does not have any support for the
> removed types which were already deprecated in GTK+ 2.24 (anything
> from GTK+2 that is not included in GTK+3, Glade >= 3.10 does not support).
>
> The feature you are looking for was only ever added to Glade as of 3.14.0
> (I searched for it and found it in these notes:
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glade/3.14/glade-3.14.0.news)
>
> Since 3.8.x is intended to be supported in the long(ish) term, we do fix bugs
> in 3.8 because people need it to work on GTK+2 projects, introducing such
> a feature into 3.8 is a kindof grey area (we don't intend to add features to
> Glade 3.8.x, just fix bugs, but this feature is perhaps worth backporting).

Ops my bad, I just made a new release glade 3.8.4 and forgot I had a
backport of this feature in my stash I will push it ASAP so you can try
it.

greets

Juan Pablo