glade / GtkBuilder [was: Re: Suggestions for a few planner features]

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Feb 24, 2013, at 12:06 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Jef Driesen <jefdriesen at telenet.be> wrote:
>> 
>> The fact that you can immediately see the result in a tool like glade makes
>> it a lot easier to create nice ui's. Prototyping becomes a lot easier,
>> because you simply move around widgets, and change layout without having to
>> touch the code.
> 
> I haven't used UI interface tools in decades, and the act of
> interfacing them to the actual code used to be so horrible as to
> negate any advantage. But if things have improved since (and they
> almost would *have* to), and the tools don't limit layout too much, we
> certainly should try it.
> 
> Anybody with any experience with glade and GtkBuilder?

One of the things on my todo list for 3.1 is a config editor for the OSTC.
While I /still/ think I'd rather switch to Qt that's the 4.0 time frame - and my 
guess is we'll do some amount of parallel development there. So I guess
I'll try glade / GtkBuilder for the OSTC config editor…

/D
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