Re: News?

Adrian Feiguin wrote:
> Hi! I really don't see a way to do what you propose, you can use glade for
> the dialogs, but the GUI is to tightly bound to gtkextra, you need
> gtkplotcanvas, gtkplot, and gtkplotdata, and the way you create the
> layers, datasets and signals is really something that cannot be
> reproduced with glade.

Without knowing too much of how the GUI is connected to extra-gtk routines,
I'm inclined to give the same comment: apparently GUI design is too much
entangled with the gtkextra library. A better way would be to have an
easier interface with gtkextra, that will allow external GUI design,
allowing to build the dialog layout with glade.

Gtkextra should be a library to do the plotting stuff, without interfering
or imposing GUI issues. If GUI issues are important, that should be via
an easy interface, without imposing spaghetti twisted GUI design in the
core of the SG code.

> Also, in the future the menu buttons could be plugins. Eventually, you could 
> use glade to create your plugins!

Does that mean, "in the future" the GUI design will be disconnected from
the gtkextra library and we can choose glade for all the dialog layout
design?

Regards,
Rob.



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