[Glade-devel] Glade-3 Python clone

[Sebastien Benoit]

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 13:38:43 +0200, Lorenzo Gil Sanchez <lgs@sicem.biz> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just wrote a Glade-3 Python clone and I thought it would be fair to
> let the Glade developers know about it.
> 
> So far it's mostly usable but no undo/redo and clipboard are working
> yet. It also lacks a Menu editor and some other things but good thing is
> it is about 5000 lines of code and I plan to do some strong refactoring
> to reduce them even more.
> 
> So the million euros question is: why did I write such a clone?
> 
> - I wrote another GUI editor for our project (http://gruppy.sicem.biz)
> but when I showed it to people interested in colaborations with our
> project they used to say: 'why didn't you use Glade for that, we all are
> used to Glade'. Even that our GUI editor goals were different than Glade
> (we strongly focus on ERP software) we couldn't convince them.
> 
> - So we put all of our ERP specific functionality in a set of custom
> widgets and decided to use them from Glade. First problem: our widgets
> are written in Python and they can not be used from Glade. So this is
> the main reason I wrote a Python Glade.
> 
> - Other reasons are code maintenability and as we want to add lots of
> features to Glade so having a small codebase was a nice thing to have.
> 
> Here is the official announce of my program:
> 
> http://www.daa.com.au/pipermail/pygtk/2004-June/008041.html
> 
> Regards
> 
> Lorenzo Gil Sanchez
> 
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It looks very nice, but your site is very slow and it takes ages to
get the files.