[Geany-Devel] RFC: Keybindings rewrite

[Matthew Brush]

On 14-06-07 03:35 PM, Colomban Wendling wrote:
> Le 06/06/2014 16:17, Thomas Martitz a écrit :
>> Hello,
>>
>> based up on Matthew's fine GtkActions branch [1]
>
> We probably should not define the actions in the Glade file but rather
> in the code, they aren't really a UI thing but should reflect what the
> app can do basically.  Basically it's rather a replacement for our
> send_command() rather than simply keybindings.
>

IMO it's much better to use something declarative for this than to write 
it in code. Even though XML is kind of ugly, it's still more 
maintainable/easier/etc than C, especially since Glade supports 
creating/editing/assigning the actions through it's user interface.

Originally I was going to create a whole separate GtkBuilder file (ex. 
actions.xml or such) for actions, but then you loose the possibility to 
select the actions for the various widgets using Glade's user interface 
(unless I missed how to make it understand two files at once).

I don't really think it's a big deal having them in the main GtkBuilder 
file, I mean they are *UI* actions used to control the appearance and 
proxy the behaviour of *UI* widgets already in the same file with other 
stuff like list models for the UI, etc.

Cheers,
Matthew Brush