Re: A proposal on GTK2 and GTK3 .ui files

On 09/05/12 02:38 AM, Ingo Brückl wrote:
>
> 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.

Simply put that way, because we are gonna drop Gtk2 anyway, it is
pointless to spend more time on this.

And make .ui file uneditable with Glade is worst than anything else.

Hub
Received on Wed May 9 18:04:04 2012