Mail Archives: geda-user/2015/10/03/17:35:38
Stefan Salewski wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-10-03 at 21:07 +0200, Nicklas Karlsson
> (nicklas DOT karlsson17 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>
>> Since someone brought up GTK3 but not Glade it feels like a good idea
>> to bring it up. Here it is https://glade.gnome.org/ and it is
>> probably also available in most Linux distributions.
>>
>> It is rather fast to get started with but I can't tell if it is a
>> good idea to use for gEDA or PCB but it is certainly worth a look for
>> any developer who work with graphical user interface and have not
>> seen it before.
>>
>> Regards Nicklas Karlsson
>>
> Of course most of us know that :-)
>
> Glade is an interface designer for GTK builder, and GTK builder is used
> for reading GUI layout from XML files.
>
> Not all people like this XML GUI design. For GTK3 that is closely
> related to the new App Design.
>
> Recently I ported the app10 example from
>
> https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/ch01s04.html#id-1.2.3.12.5
>
> to Nim. Well, I can see some benefits of that new style, it may be nice
> for small tools. But I have problems to imagine how such a menu style
> should work for large tools. I guess the main motivation was tablet
> devices with touch input?
>
> For gEDA and PCB: Some people wrote recently that they do not want GTK3
> at all, they prefer GTK2. And general popularity of GTK is its own
> story of course.
>
>
>
Hi Stefan,
A GTK-3 GUI for pcb can coexist besides the GTK-2 and the Lesstif GUIs
without much ado.
I thought about this a couple of times, and I'm still not sure if
GtkBuilder is the way to go.
Maybe "plain" code is better maintainable.
I will help and assist you if you start on this "project".
Kind regards,
Bert Timmerman.
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