On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 22:09:18 +1000 Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com wrote:
[1] at least it wasn't possible without fixing an issue in GTK 2.20, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618639
So part of GTK 2.x isn't usable? Why won't they fix the bug? Surely deprecated stuff should be supported until 3.x.
With GTK, in general deprecated seems to mean unsupported, so unlikely :-(.
This seems bad for a toolkit as important as GTK.
I suppose the only workaround for Erik is to install an earlier GTK to build Glade 2.12 with and regenerate the interface.c file.
Downgrading a GTK version can have major follow-on effects on all the things that depend on it, I for one won't be doing it.
I wasn't suggesting downgrading, that would be next to impossible on a Gnome system. I meant having a parallel install of GTK. I haven't tried it myself but have heard people say they do that.
Glade 2.12.2 is about 2.5 years old so I think it's not too old for GTK to drop support for it.
Nobody is interested in it, its even hard to find a download of 2.12
Latest Fedora still seems to package it: http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=glade2&system=fedora
now. In fact Geany probably should have a tarball on the hacking page with the GTK docs.
Good idea.
Note that Glade 3.7 (current) claims to support GTK2.8
Interesting.
but only via libglade loading XML, not code generation like interface.c. That would entail a major change in Geany and another dependency (libglade).
I think the dependency issue isn't too important. We need to have a UI designer IMO and glade2 needs replacing.
Maybe it's time to upgrade (after the next release?).
Regards, Nick