Re: GTK 3.0: an app developer's view

2008-06-18 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> 20 years ago, everyone was hand-coding assembly routines. We were? I think you are generalising slightly. 20 years ago, I would assume most programmers were happily writing Cobol, Fortran, Pascal, C, etc high-level languages. ("high-level" compared to machine language, that is. Of course, in th

Re: GTK 3.0: an app developer's view

2008-06-17 Thread Paul LeoNerd Evans
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:05:28 +0100 Martyn Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Glade has been doing this for years. It is much quicker for an > application developer to use Glade to define menus, windows, dialogs, > etc than it is to code then *statically*. I say statically because you > don't nee

Re: GTK 3.0: an app developer's view

2008-06-17 Thread Martyn Russell
Allin Cottrell wrote: > Sorry for cross-posting, but I think this does cross gtk-devel and > gtk-app-devel: it's the thoughts of a common-or-garden app > developer following the dicussions on gtk-devel about what's > coming with GTK 3.0. > > As a starting point, on June 5, in the thread "Steps

GTK 3.0: an app developer's view

2008-06-16 Thread Allin Cottrell
Sorry for cross-posting, but I think this does cross gtk-devel and gtk-app-devel: it's the thoughts of a common-or-garden app developer following the dicussions on gtk-devel about what's coming with GTK 3.0. As a starting point, on June 5, in the thread "Steps to get to GTK+ 3.0", Martyn Russe