Re: Use of any interface designer - is it worthy?

["dodji Seketeli" <dodji seketeli org>]

Yeah, I agree

> The one question I have about glade / libglade is whether it handles
> UIManager widgets well.

Well, what I have seen so far is that glade/libglade (at least
glade-2) doesn't handle
UIManager at all.


> Does anybody have
> any experience with glade and UIManager?

I use glade-2/libglade extensively, but I handle the menu/toolbars
parts by hand, using UIManager and friends.

> I've found UIManager to be
> really nice for constructing menus and toolbars.

That's true.

> One other point to note is that the GTK+ developers plan to move
> libglade into the core GTK+ library (see
> http://live.gnome.org/LibgladeInGtk).  By the way, looking at the
> page, they have a list of future featues which includes "Support for
> building GtkUIManager based interfaces".  So it looks like I was right
> that it's not currently possible to use UIManager with libglade...

Definitely .

Dodji.