Re: libglade vs glade for dialog generation

[Fabricio Rocha <rocha_fabricio yahoo com br>]

Hi all,

         Hope you don´t mind if I put my two cents on this as well -- 
technical questions apart. I am a beginner in GTK programming and have 
been studying some GTK and Glade tutorials for a while. Recently I´ve 
discovered Libglade and it really looks like a great idea. As Glade 3 is 
already promised with Libglade-only support, I decided to start my 
project (ironically, kind of a RAD IDE for totally-visual application 
development) using Libglade.

         But I must admit that it is not being really a simple thing, 
and I might have a simple explanation from my point of view -- beginner, 
amateur, hobbyist programmer, professional journalist (in Brazil 
journalists are not technicians who learn to write, we really study 
journalism as bachelor degree). Unlike GTK/Glade, Libglade is very 
poorly documented. For Glade, even the container boxes concept is not a 
"whaddahell" thing anymore. But, so far, I could not find a decent, less 
superficial tutorial for development with Libglade, and the "official" 
documentation is very basic. GTK itself is not an easy thing and, as it 
is, Libglade (lack of) documentation helps make things harder.

         The GTK/Glade/Libglade development folks might think not only 
about new features for advanced GTK programmers, but also about easiness 
for newcomers -- and so I hope that a more complete Libglade 
documentation will be done and available *before* Libglade becomes the 
only (at least for a while) option for Glade.

         By the way, plugins for generating code for lots of languages 
would be great, and in fact it is exactly one of the ideas I planned for 
my own RAD IDE mentioned above. Maybe both programs could share some 
ideas and contributions.... that´s the spirit of free software!

Thanks and best regards,

Fabricio Rocha
Brasilia, Brasil