[Glade-devel] GtkStyles (was: .. about using XUL .. )

[Sridhar R]

On Thu, Tommi Komulainen  wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 10:27, ext todd wrote:
> > Sridhar R wrote:
> > 
> > >What about using XUL instead of glade-xml.  Can
> anyone
> > >explain what makes glade-xml to be prefered
> choice
> > >over XUL. We (OSS community) need to standardize
> on
> > >technologies.  Can anyone take initial step?
> 
> [I'm just lurking on this list, the following
> doesn't reflect the
> position of the Glade team.]

> Well, I've been idly wondering why does Glade store
> both structure and
> style in the same XML file while others (XHTML +
> CSS) are trying rather
> hard to separate the two (more or less
> successfully.)

  Oh!, that's great, something like which I was asking
in this list before (about adding gtkstyle properties
to properties).  Also glade should support, styles
like background-color for global widgets as well as
for specific widgets.  Nice feature.

> 
> It should be rather straightforward to move spacings
> and other
> properties outside the XML file into a separate
> stylesheet (using a
> subset of CSS perhaps) and then you'd have something
> quite similar to
> XUL:
> 
> <GtkWindow id="window1" _title="My Window">
>   <GtkVBox id="vbox1">
>     <GtkEntry id="entry1" value="" />
>     <GtkEventBox id="eventbox1" />
>   </GtkVBox>
> </GtkWindow>
> 
> Embedding code... that's probably a harder problem. 
> Embedding C code
> feels uncomfortable at least for me and adding
> JavaScript support is
> quite a lot of work I guess.  It would be nice to be
> able to define
> 'Keep this button insensitive while this entry is
> empty' in the Glade
> model, though.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Tommi Komulainen <tommi.komulainen@nokia.com>
> 
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