Am So, 6.10.2013, 15:39 schrieb Thomas Martitz:
Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com schrieb:
On 6 October 2013 22:21, Thomas Martitz < thomas.martitz@student.htw-berlin.de> wrote:
Am 03.10.2013 02:00, schrieb Lex Trotman:
Is there a problem with this approach?That means when the minimum version of GTK is increased we will have
to
upgrade to version of Glade that supports the new widgets that come
with
the new GTK. And then apply the fixes. So along with lack of
windows
maintenance (please lets deprecate it) we now have Glade upgrade
issues
slowing the movement of GTK versions.
Ok I see you try to avoid anything which could possible mean more maintenance work, even if only in theory :)
Anyway, the glade version needs only to be updated if we also make
use of
newer widgets _and_ don't implement them programmatically. This seems
like
a very rare event, and even then applying fixes is as easy as git
rebase.
For the vast majority of time our set-in-stone, fixed Glade can be
used
without extra effort.
But you need to see it from another POV: Doing this enables us, and
more
importantly new and fresh contributors, to use Glade for the Geany
UI. This
clearly outweighs the very little extra maintenance effort. And I
would
argue that this even reduces maintenance effort overall since we
don't have
to worry about geany.xml anymore.
Well, I am wondering how much change is going to happen to the UI within the life of Geany on 2.x? But if you think there are major changes to be made then I understand the attraction of using Glade rather than editing XML (shudder).
Its not just using different versions either, some versions of Glade seem to delight in producing noise no matter how little you do :(
So I guess the first step would be for you to identify a Glade version that produces a file that both GTK2 and GTK3 Geany correctly read and that doesn't produce lots of noise each change. Then you need to make the modifications you mentioned.
Without knowing that such a Glade exists the whole question is theoretical :)
If it exists then its certainly a possible solution.
I forked glade at github and made two fixes to it: [1]
- fixed the unstable output (mostly) - fixed stripping of "icon-name" attribute of GtkIconFactory. It's still not editable in the GUI but it glade at least shouldn't remove it anymore from existing XML
Seeing that 3.8.x is maintained actively at upstream I will try to get the changes upstream. For the first fix I already opened [2].
Please see if it makes glade usable for us. It worked in my (limited) testing.
Best regards.
[1] https://github.com/kugel-/glade/tree/glade-3-8-fixes [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709609