Re: libglade vs glade for dialog generation

[Carlo Agrusti <carlo-ag libero it>]

Gus Koppel ha scritto lo scorso 19/01/2005 13:37:
> Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
>
>
> > > I have been using Gtk for some months with glade for GUI
> > > development. So far I only use the code generation option of glade

[...]

> > Generating code with glade is pretty much depricated by public
> > opinion.
> >
> > Note also that the new generation of glade will not generate code at
> > all.
>
>
>
> Actually, to me that sounds like a threat, which may jeopardize not only
> my but also other people's future work or plans with GTK+!
>
> I've been working with libglade for a while but returned to Glade
> generated code. There is a handfull of reasons for that, which may or
> may not apply to others as well:

[... a big cut of a lot of good reasons, IMHO]

> <offtopic_request>
> So my plea, likely on behalf of others as well, is *not* to abandon code
> generating facility of Glade! Forcing programmers to use libglade is a
> non-trivial compatibility and dependancy breach and bloats applications
> in a way, not every programmer who uses GTK+ is willing to accept!
> </offtopic_request>

I fully agree with your point of view and your arguments; I join your 
offtopic request too.