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

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Feb 24, 2013, at 1:00 PM, Dirk Hohndel wrote:

> 
> 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…

Jeepers. I played with Glade-2 (as we are gtk-2 based I thought that was
the one to try). What an utter piece of crap. I'd rather poke my eyes out…

Anybody who has used QtCreator (and I haven't spent all THAT much
time with it, either) will just shudder with the Glade-2 user experience.

/D

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