Re: [Vala] Blitzen: A Vala Application Server

[Vlad Grecescu <b100dian gmail com>]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 4:30 PM, pancake <pancake youterm com> wrote:
> > > Vlad and me are planing to add support for Stk in GtkON

I can confirm that we are planning to test gtkaml with every widget
composition based library out there.

We started with Gtk, added some initial Clutter support, and there are
even more out there to test (Mx, Hildon,.. even libGee).

Stk may be compatible too.

> On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 11:22:37 +0000 (UTC)
> Samuel CUELLA <samuel cuella supinfo com> wrote:
>
> > Somebody just dragged my attention to your project some days ago. I'm really
> > missing your point there. What's the purpose of GtkON ? I mean, it's generating
> > Vala code out of an XML file with mixed UI definition and code. Don't take it
> > personal, but I think it's a very, very bad idea, at least for real
> > applications. It might be OK for rapid prototyping. But in my opinion, that's
> > not the big problem. The big problem is why using this ? libglade have been
> > around for years, GtkBuilder is now integrated directly in gtk and glade is able
> > to generate XML for it. Why using something like GtkON when you can use glade to
> > design your interface and something /built into/ Gtk to load it ? GtkBuilder is
> > available for any language that has a gtk binding, including Vala, but not
> > restricted to it. For me, that's making GtkON pretty useless.

I see this every once in a while, so I keep an up-to-date blogpost on
this: http://blad.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/what-gtkaml-is-not/

Personally, I find it unusual that the people have the "we already
have this" reaction even when seeing Adobe Flex, MS XAML, Sun JavaFX,
Nokia QML.

There's something out there that makes them not feel like Windows
.rc/.res files.