Re: gnome-utils porting report

["Bastien R. Nocera" <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2001-10-16 at 07:57, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> writes:
> 
> > * gfloppy: TODO (uses Glade)
> 
> I did an initial pass on this tonight, and got something to appear on
> the screen. 
> 
> http://jrb.webwynk.net/files/Screenshot-gfloppy.png
> 
> It doesn't format yet, or do much of anything, but it's there.  I found
> a number of bugs in libglade while doing this, none of which seem
> incredibly bad to fix.  I filed them all, and hopefully jamesh will get
> a chance to look at them at some point.

Excellent !

> One thing I learned from this is that it seems that moving gnome-dialogs
> to a gtk-dialog is going to take the most time with a GTK 2 based app
> (or at least a glade based one).  Presumably when libglade supports
> GnomeDialog, things will be better, though we prolly want to port over
> anyways.  Still, the whole process took less than 2 hours, and most of
> the time was spent dealing with libglade and writing a new glade file
> by hand.

writing a new libglade by hand ? that sounds pretty awful, but I reckon
it will be that or relying solely on the script while Glade2 isn't out.

Did you commit the thing to CVS ? I'd like to look at what you've done
there.

Cheers

-- 
/Bastien Nocera
http://hadess.net