Re: Abiword & Gnome (was: Re: What is GNOME office?)

[Joaquin Cuenca Abela <e98cuenc yahoo com>]

--- Martin Sevior <msevior mccubbin ph unimelb edu au>
wrote:
> 
> 
> On 20 Nov 2000, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Chema Celorio <chema celorio com> writes:  
> > > [1* they consider libglade a gnome-only library,
> since it
> > > ships with GNOME but not with gtk. And thus, not
> want
> > > to be a dependency for their *nix version]
> > > 
> > 
> > This is a bit silly. libglade also ships by
> itself, it doesn't require
> > GNOME I don't think. And unlike some parts of
> GNOME, libglade would be
> > trivial to port to any platforms GTK runs on.
> > 
> 
> It's funny how things turn out. One of the reasons I
>  started
> developing for AbiWord was that I wanted to get
> enough stature to tell
> them what they were doing wrong and why they should
> change what they're
> doing. Using Libglade was one of those reasons. I
> thought Abi should use
> this too.
> 
> 11 Gtk dialogs later (either implemented or fiddled
> with including 3
> versions of lists) I can see the merits of Abi's
> pragmatic approach. 
> 
> The first thing you have to remember is that Abi is
> C++ program that uses
> straight GTK+. There is no support in Libglade for
> this approach.

why?

Dom has advocating the use of libglade because it
reduces
the time needed to code a dialog, and makes the code
(1 line)
more maintenable :)
C++ don't change that.

Cheers,

--
Joaquín Cuenca Abela
e98cuenc yahoo com


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