--- "Michael D. Pritchett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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) > ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/translator.pl http://www.abisource.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
