Re: News?

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Rob Lahaye wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
> 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.

Some apps have GUI separated (to some degree) from the rest of code,
and some don't. Some people use gui builders like glade, and some are just
typing code. It's difficult to say, which way is better. 

> Gtkextra should be a library to do the plotting stuff, without interfering
> or imposing GUI issues. 

From gtkextra/README:
It is a useful widget set complementary to GTK+ for creating graphical
interfaces for the X Windows System.

> 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.

Do you mean there should be an additional interface to GTK+ API?
Hmmm... 

> > 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?

I think it doesn't mean that.

Marcin



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