Re: GtkBuilder bug?

[Yevgen Muntyan <muntyan tamu edu>]

On Feb 27, 2008, at 16:31 , Emmanuele Bassi wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 22:20 +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 22:32 +0100, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> > > Hmmm. This sounds like a very narrow minded decision to me. I have
> > > been planning to write write a framework where one can send  
> > > GtkBuilder
> > > XML snippets to a DBus service and have that service embed this  
> > > as out
> > > of process plugins.
> > >
> > > The described GtkBuilder behavior forces me to write a separate
> > > validator before I pass it to the GtkBuilder. Bugger.
> >
> > I don't believe that any data passed to a library should result in a
> > fatal warning, surely a GError return would be a far better option  
> > here.
>
> this is data building your UI: it screams design tool, developer or
> packager error, and I would expect GtkBuilder to error out very, very
> quickly. if it were user input, or application data it would have  
> been a
> completely different story - but the UI layout of an application *is*
> the application, it's not user data.


But nobody can tell that the particular chunk of XML is
"the UI layout of an application". It's not gtk_main_form(),
it's gtk_parse_this_xml_and_build_something_of_it().
A plugin loading its UI from xml, is it user data, application
data, or ...? (I don't quite understand how a glade file in
/usr/share may or may not be The UI and not data, but then
I also don't understand how people write applications which need
a glade file on disk to start, so that's another story)
Anyway, libglade doesn't crash, so it's a regression ;)

Yevgen