[Glade-users] Glade2 and gnomeui

[Tyson Lloyd Thwaites]

Hi John,

Thank you, you have been more than useful. I had a feeling the gnome palette
was only a line away!

re the X/Y, all us gui developers know they are eveil, but....sheesh,
sometimes I still like to use it. I guess I am still learning the GTK
layouts as opposed to Java, and sometimes I just cave in and use the
absolute layout. Sigh...

Re the druid, the only problem I have is being forced into looking like
gnome. Sometimes I do not want those cute arrows and crosses on my buttons.
I do not like the little strip down the side. I want the icon on the left,
etc etc. Picky perhaps but that's how it is. Also, I wonder about the
performance of stuff that has been linked with gnome libraries; I may
speaking out of ignorance here

Tyson Lloyd Thwaites
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John (J5) Palmieri" <johnp@martianrock.com>
To: "Tyson Lloyd Thwaites" <tysonlt@webmedia.com.au>
Cc: <glade-users@lists.ximian.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Glade-users] Glade2 and gnomeui


> On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 21:00, Tyson Lloyd Thwaites wrote:
> > Hi you lot,
> >
> > I have just started on the road of C development (I do Java for a
living),
> > and I have had success with glade, ligblade, and anjuta. I recently
decided
> > I should probably upgrade my app to GTK2, glade2 etc. I can get my new
app
> > to compile, however I have the following two problems:
> >
> > 1.    libglade doesn't seem to know what the 'x' and 'y' property of a
> > widget means anymore (I use a few absolute layouts)
> X and Y are bad for most applications.  Not to say that it is
> never useful but more often than not it leads to inconsistent UI.
> GTK2 and Gnome2 strive for the consistency that GTK1 and Gnome1 lacked.
> For X, Y layout I believe the GnomeCanvas widget is the prefered method
> though don't quote me on that.  Check out the HIG for guidelines on
> Gnome2 UI design (http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/).
>
> > 2.    where has the gnome UI palette group gone?
> Your project is most likely being read as a GTK project.  To change this
> edit your .glade file in a text editor and add this after the
<glade-interface> tag:
> <requires lib="gnome"/>
>
>
> > I am using the stock Redhat 9 install. I see screenshots on the net of
> > Glade2 with gnome showing - how I do 'make it so'?
> >
> > OTHERWISE: has anybody written an alternative to the gnome druid? That
is
> > the only component I am actually using.
> The Druid is still the way to do it.
>
> > Thanks for helping a newbie.
> >
> No problem. Hope I have been at least a little helpful.
>
> --
> J5
>
>