Re: glade

There is serious discussion in the GTK/Gnome community of completely
removing any ability to generate C code from glade, it is hated so
much.

And if you maintain a non-glade GTK program, consider switching it
to use libglade, so that we can get things to work well both on
different resolution PDA screens (480x320 is soon to be "normal"),
and when teleporting the application to desktop screens. We're going
to have to be able to handle differing screen sizes gracefully.

Secondly, Glade helps in internationalization, as layout can be
tweaked as well as the translation to make everything fit well.

Thirdly, it means you can get help with your UI without the person
helping having to learn the insides of your application.
                                - Jim

> Sender: gpe-bounces_at_handhelds.org
> From: Philip Blundell <philb_at_gnu.org>
> Date: 13 Apr 2003 13:56:56 +0100
> To: gpe_at_handhelds.org
> Subject: [Gpe] glade
> -----
> libglade2-0 is now packaged in Familiar. Anybody who maintains a
> Glade-using program, please consider switching to runtime UI
> construction via libglade, rather than a generated interface.c file.
> The libglade approach will substantially reduce the size of application
> binaries (interface.c often compiles to many kilobytes of object code,
> even for relatively simple programs), and makes it possible to change
> the window layout without recompiling.
>

--
Jim Gettys
Cambridge Research Laboratory
HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard Company
Jim.Gettys_at_hp.com