Libxfce4ui api review, round 2

Nick Schermer nickschermer at gmail.com
Fri Jul 10 22:29:55 CEST 2009


2009/7/10 Brian J. Tarricone <brian at tarricone.org>:
> On 2009/07/09 23:30, Nick Schermer wrote:
>>
>> Well for as long a nobody has complaints at this stage about the api,
>
> Yah, looks ok to me.
>
>> we can start to port the core components to libxfce4ui. I also like to
>> purpose the switch to Gtkbuilder since the minimum gtk dep (2.14)
>> allows that*.
>
> Hmm, I'm not so sure about that.  Does glade3 even export in GtkBuilder
> format yet, without needing to use a conversion script?
>
> It would be nice *not* to have to port the libglade stuff to 4ui to avoid
> having that dependency (forever), though.

Yes latest builds of glade work fine with gtkbuilder (probably even
better with gtkbuilder then with libglade).

> Nowhere.  I posted a list of things that needed to be done over 3 weeks ago,
> and asked for help, but nobody stood up to do it.  I haven't had time.

I'm not an expert in those kind of things, so I'll just focus on the
code. I don't want to put pressure on anyone, just saying this is the
kind of stuff we're agreed to switch git ;-).

> Sure... hopefully porting from glade won't be *too* much work.  I do recall
> that there's a list of steps for "quick and easy" porting somewhere, but I
> can't remember if I saw it on live.gnome.org or on some blog on planet gnome
> or something.  Sigh, I should bookmark things.

No worries, already ported and wrote stuff in gtkbuilder, know now it works ;-).

Nick



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