[glade--]Re: Gnomemm-2 support in glade--

[Christof Petig <christof petig-baender de>]

Hi Peter,

Here's my mail on gnome2 support. Perhaps Erwin should raise his hands 
if he has finished anything.

   Christof

Peter Wainwright wrote:
> I'm interested in using glade--, but Gnome 2 support doesn't
> seem to be there yet. I checked out the latest from
> anoncvs.gnome.org - are these the latest sources?
>
> If Gnome 2 support is coming soon I can save myself some work.
> But just to let you known that I have started to do some
> hacking on it myself... I probably don't have time for more
> than an occasional patch, but here is what I have so far:

Christof Petig wrote:
> Erwin J. van Eijk schrieb:
>
> > Hello Christof,
> >
> > I'm currently looking into glade--, it works like a charm for gtkmm
> > stuff, but for the gnomemm stuff, well, it's not finished.
> >
> > Tonight I was tinkering to get some basic gnomemm support in, but then
> > I realised that
> > a) you'd probably already been doing that
>
>
> not really (sorry!). I hardly find time to do anything but preparing our 
> 'open to the public' day next weekend.
>
> > b) if you weren't, you'd have some ideas on how to do it.
>
>
> first you need to set up a working configure.in/autogen.sh (that's 
> probably the hardest) for the generated project. If you manage to get 
> gettext working, a lot of people would be glad (it once worked as of 
> gnome 1.0, but gnome 1.4 seems to be different - I never found 
> definitive docs - that's why I really look forward to gnome2).
>
> second you need to write a write for the unknown widgets (with the ones 
> at hand this should be relatively easy).
>
> And last but not least the gnome menu support is really ugly (menubar.cc 
> IIRC). I rewrote a much cleaner one for the gtkmm menu support and the 
> gnome support need a rewrite too (Mostly applying the developed scheme).
>
> > Since I don't like working in vain, I'd like to discuss your philosopy 
> > before really continueing, if possible on IRC, since that
> > tends to speed up stuff, when compaired to email.
>
>
> Sorry, I never IRC. But EMail should be fast enough since we live in the 
> same time zone.
>
> Yours
>    Christof
>
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