Re: Glade woes, was: Purging the F13 orphans

[Tim Waugh]

On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 17:13 +0100, Nils Philippsen wrote:
>  - I understand that upstream is working on glade3 and ignoring
> glade2,
>  but this tool needs to stay until glade3 properly understands legacy
>  glade2-generated files, doesn't have obvious problems like
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=519426 "Wrong orientation
>  default for VBox". AFAIK this is essential so that people can sensibly
>  convert their existing glade projects to gtkbuilder. Having to do UIs
>  from scratch is not a viable option. If there are other, more robust
>  glade2 to gtkbuilder converters I'd like to know about it. 
FWIW, when I made the switch to glade-3 for system-config-printer I bit
the bullet and explicitly set the orientation property for every VBox I
had in the UI.  It isn't absolutely necessary at runtime, but it is
essential if you want glade-3 to show the interface as it will actually
appear.

That wasn't all that was necessary though:

 * all GtkSpinButtons needed explicit GtkAdjustments added; 

 * GtkComboBoxEntry widgets needed to have their default text columns
set;

 * and GtkComboBox widgets needed to have models explicitly set --
meaning that any translations previously in the glade files had to be
moved elsewhere.

Tim.
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