[Glade-users] glade, gtk 2.20 and "name" object property

[tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com (Tristan Van Berkom)]

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Tadej Borov?ak <tadeboro at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> > So, my question is:
> >
> > Is it a gtk-bug and I have to post it on gtk forum since it makes existing gtkbuilder xml incompatible 
> > with gtkrc files?
> > Is it a glade incompatibility and glade has to be modified so what it auto-generate "name" property in 
> > GtkBuilder xmls?
>
> I would call this "Glade is not catching-up" bug. I think that proper
> thing to do would be to add "id" field under "General" tab and remap
> "Name" filed from "id" property to "name" property of GtkWidget. More
> crude method would be to simply generate "name" property for all
> widgets using "id".

Right, Glade still needs to add a feature to let you edit the name separately.
There is a possibility that we drop the requirement to have an "id"
set for every widget
in the file by GTK+ 3.0 in which case only exported symbols from the Glade file
will have identifiers.

Note that syncing the "name" to the "id" defeats the purpose - one of the main
reasons the change was made in GTK+ was to allow non-unique widget names
in the project (mostly to help with GtkStyle hacks).


Cheers,
        -Tristan



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