Form manager

[Jaap Karssenberg <j g karssenberg student utwente nl>]

Hi,

I recently discovered the pleasures of working with Gtk2::UIManager. I 
like it so much that I dropped backward compatibility for gtk < 2.4.0 
for my applications.

Now I'm thinking of a module which I would call Gtk2::Ex::FormManager 
(although suggestions are welcome), which would do for my preferences 
dialog what uimanager does for the menu- and toolbar.

The idea is to have an array  that defines name/type/default etc. of the 
options (similar to actions for uimanager) and a xml layout that 
arranges these options within the dialog. Thirdly there would be a hash 
that contains the actual values of these options. Probably the hash 
would need to be a tied object in order to allow code to be executed 
when an option changes.

One of the advantages would be that plugins for my application could 
easily define the options they have, and expose these to the user 
without containing any real Gtk code, similar to how UIManager allows 
them to define and expose actions without actual Gtk code.

Is this something other people on this list might be interested in or 
did I overlook similar modules or solutions that make this module redundant?
Any feedback is welcome.

-- Jaap <pardus can org>