First glade-3 development snapshot

[Tristan Van Berkom <tristan van berkom gmail com>]

Hi,
    This is the first ever development snapshot of glade-3, after years of
hard work, blood, sweat... you know the deal... we bring you the beginnings
of what I'm sure will be a great product of the community.

* What is glade-3
=================

    Glade is a RAD tool to enable quick & easy development of user interfaces
for the Gtk+ toolkit and the GNOME desktop environment. The user interfaces
designed in Glade are stored in XML format, enabling easy integration with
external tools. In particular libglade can load the XML files and create the
interfaces at runtime.

This version of Glade (Glade-3) is a complete rewrite of the original Glade codebase.

    One of the main differnces from glade-2 is that C code generation has been removed:
this has been done on purpose, since using generated code is deprecated; the preferred
way to use glade files is with libglade (if code generation is needed, this can be provided
as another tool or plugin, code generation is simply not a part of the glade-3 project).
Another main difference is that glade-3 was designed to make maximal use of GObject
introspection, thus easing the integration of external toolkits and handling widgets,
signals and properties genericly; thus making it easier to write fancy features in the
future (toolkits such as gtk+ itself, gnome, gnome-db and any others are implemented
externaly as widget catalogs with optional support libraries, thus catalogs may be
distributed seperatly; possibly along with their libglade support modules).

It has a few useful new features such as stacked Undo/Redo and Multiple Project support
and respects the same XML format as glade-2.


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glade-3 2.90.0
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What is new in glade-3 2.90.0
=============================

    Everything about glade-3 is definitly new in this first ever
development snapshot, so I give you here a list of all the
all star players that helped up to this point to make it happen
(anyone I have any kind of record of should be here).

Contributors:
=============
   Chema Celorio, Jonathan Blandford, Carlos Perello Marin,
   Archit Baweja, Ravi Pratap, Shane Butler, Joe Shaw, Kjartan Maraas,
   Michael Meeks, James Willcox, Joaquín Cuenca Abela, Paolo Borelli,
   Tommi Komulainen, Damon Chaplin, David Hoover, Morten Welinder,
   Tristan Van Berkom, Ivan Wong, Gustavo Noronha Silva, Richard Hult
   Mikael Hallendal, Naba Kumar, Philip Van Hoof, Juan Pablo Ugarte

Translators:
============
  Fatih Demir, Christian Rose, Pablo Saratxaga, Duarte Loreto,
  Zbigniew Chyla, Hasbullah Bin Pit, Takeshi AIHANA


And here's a list of the major missing parts of glade-3:

     - i18n'ness still needs to be finished (Richard Hult already got a
       great deal done here)

     - Write custom menu editor and toolbar editor (and implement plugin
       entry point for custom editors)

     - Add the rest of the Gtk+ widgets and implement good plugin code
       for them where needed (including the non GtkWidget classes)

     - Add Gnome widget catalog

     - Need to streamline button-press-events on runtime widgets better,
       widgets like GtkEntry seem to eat up mouse clicks without us getting
       a chance to treat them (especially noticable when dealing with GtkFixed
       or GtkLayout children), glade-2 seems to handle this nicely, so there
       must be a way...

Ofcourse there are alot of other minor bugs lying around and alot of bugs
that I hope will be reported to bugzilla after releasing this snapshot :)

* Where can I get it ?
======================

    http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/glade-3/2.90/glade-3-2.90.0.tar.gz
    [MD5: 0049d2c2874c57ddfb610107b570bc25]


Please report bugs to http://bugzilla.gnome.org (product glade3)
and send any comments to glade-devel lists ximian com 

Enjoy,
                                -Tristan