[Glade-users] practical question: apps locating glade file

[Neil Zanella <nzanella gmail com> (Neil Zanella)]

On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 18:54:49 +0200, Tommi Komulainen
<tommi komulainen nokia com> wrote:

> In Galeon we do things roughly as follows:
>
> #ifdef ENABLE_MAINTAINER_MODE
>   /* for running inside the toplevel directory (./src/galeon) */
>   gladexml = glade_xml_new ("./ui/galeon.glade", ...);
>   /* for running in src/ subdirectory (./galeon) */
>   if (!gladexml)
>     gladexl = glade_xml_new ("../ui/galeon.glade", ...);
> #endif
>   if (!gladexml)
>     gladexl = glade_xml_new (GLADEDIR "/galeon.glade", ...);

Sort of OK, but it seems this method needs a recompile in order
to do a make install. On the other hand I can't think of a better
solution, and it seems to me that having glade_xml_new itself
do the directory searching for the given file inappropriate.

Thanks for your feedback,

Neil