Re: Programmatically build UI's considered harmful...

On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 02:37, Moray Allan wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 17:49, Nils Faerber wrote:
> > So I think this approach _could_
> > involve higher efforts...
>
> And another problem: the GTK2 glade appeared to completely refuse to
> load in a file from the GTK1 version when I tried. If this is a general
> problem then the future job of porting to GTK2 will actually be *harder*
> for applications using Glade.
IIRC there is a script in GNOME CVS to 'port' the XML glade files over.
It was used before the glade2 *tool* was ready, but when the file format
was.

> (Note however that I have an underlying bias that says that GUIs should
> be designed by looking at them - in practical terms, if you're writing
> the code manually you're less likely to bother packing buttons in the
> way that looks nicest, rather than just the one that's quickest....)
More importantly (IMHO), it allows people like you (Moray) to go and
screw around with our crappy UIs without bothering with compiling
everything all the time ;)

> Moray
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