Re: GNOME HIG and libglade2

From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Feb 04 2003 - 18:54:33 EST

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     --- "Michael D. Pritchett" <mpritchett@attglobal.net>
    wrote: >
    >
    >
    >
    > On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Marc Maurer wrote:
    >
    > > In the light of the recent GNOME HIG documents, I
    > want to redesign some dialogs
    > > to make them HIG compliant.
    > >
    > > In the very distant past, the AbiWord GTK dialogs
    > have been made using glade.
    > > They are even in a CVS module. They were only used
    > to generate *code* for the
    > > dialogs. Since then, things have changed in the
    > code, which results in the fact
    > > that the glade files can NOT easily be used
    > anymore.
    > >
    > > I've done some redesigning already (using Glade-2)
    > and I don't want the horrible
    > > mess as described before ever again! I want design
    > a dialog, and not having to
    > > do it ALL over again when something silly changes
    > in our code. This means I want
    > > to use libglade2 to load the UI. This will give of
    > way more flexibility with
    > > respect to our UI design.
    > >
    > > Now, there were some people against using
    > libglade2. Speak now, or be silent
    > > _forever_.
    > >
    > > Bye!
    > > Marc
    >
    >
    > I spent against this requirement. I mean if you are
    > going to have a
    > "special" library for loading widgets and all, why
    > not go the XUL or the
    > wxWindow route for XP compatibility? I disagree
    > with the addition of yet
    > another library for AbiWord.

    I also tend not to want more library dependencies.
    What about adding this stuff only for the Gnome build?

    Andrew.

    > Cheers!
    >
    >
    > Michael D. Pritchett
    > (a lone voice in the forest)
    >

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