Re: [gnome-love] glade2

[Chema Celorio <chema ximian com>]

On 20 Jun 2001 13:23:56 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
> Chema Celorio wrote:
>
> > There are very clear tasks to do since we are "cloning" the old glade
> > program, all the code is new but the old glade code is a good guide both
> > because it contains code that is doing the same task and also because we
> > don't have to think about the design of the gui and how things should
> > work, we just need to copy the old he old glade.
>
> However, you should also keep one eye on the progress of the ATK
> (accessibility toolkit) while you're doing this, as any apps that are
> porting to 2.0 should use this where possible to make their GUIs
> accessible, even if they just look exactly the same as they did in 1.4 
> :)
>
> (Although it should be possible to do the relevant accessibility work
> afterwards without a great deal of extra effort, and if you're beginning
> to port this early you may not even have much choice, but check out the
> GAP website and mailing list for details of the current ATK status).

I'll have to do this later, i just don't have enough time for it. The
smaller the task is, the better.

> > After we get the same functionality as the current glade project, we can start
> > redesigning the gui.
>
> On the same topic, it would also be really cool if the widget property
> dialogs in the GLADE GUI itself were extended to include the new
> accessibility properties on widgets that the ATK provides, and that all
> GNOME 2.0 apps should be making use of.  But that's a little further
> down the road...

/me nods

regards,
Chema

> Cheeri,
> Calum.
>
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