Re: About dialog API

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 11:21, Jody Goldberg wrote:

> > One possibility would be to extend the parsing of the contributers list
> > to allow division into sections with section names.
> > 
> > "* Coders\n"
> > "Matthias Clasen\n"
> > "* Artwork\n"
> > "Garrett Lesage\n"
> 
> We have GMarkup why not use it and avoid the need to add yet another
> string parser.  No need to get too fancy, just something like :
> <contributor
>     name="Matthias Clasen"
>     email_address="foo"
>     contribution_area="Coder">description</contributor>
> 
> Translators would not need to learn another string format, and you
> get extensibility to add crack later.  Does intltool handle xml
> strings embedded in C yet ?

I think if you were going this route, you'd want to do a single
XML(-like) file describing the entire about dialog, rather than 
fragments of XML stuck in different properties.

But this strikes me as:
 
 - Rather inconvenient for the programmer

 - Different than the way the rest of GTK+ works.

Regards,
                                         Owen