A proposal on GTK2 and GTK3 .ui files

From: Ingo Brückl <ib_at_wupperonline.de>
Date: Wed May 09 2012 - 11:38:02 CEST

Comparing both .ui file types, there is not much difference between them.
Besides some horizontal/vertical issues with all kind of boxes and some combo
box issues (which we could overcome better by creating model and renderer in
the .cpp code, but anyway), they are identical.

Why don't we get rid of two versions of the same file and find a way to
somehow make the different parts configurable - either by creating them from
.in files or by a perl script? The advantage of having just one .ui file is
obvious, both builds, GTK2 and GTK3 would benefit from fixes and/or
adjustments and neither will be forgotten. Also, maintenance is much easier.

If there is common consent that this is desirable I'd do all the work on it,
but I'd need someone to test on GTK3, i.e. getting feedback whether the
combined .ui file is ok.

Ingo
Received on Wed May 9 12:04:36 2012

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