[Glade-users] Multiple glade files

Damon Chaplin damon@karuna.uklinux.net
21 Jan 2004 10:14:49 +0000


On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 01:11, Caleb Groom wrote:
> I've noticed that some projects split each dialog or small groups of
> dialogs into one glade file per dialog/small group.
> 
> Seems to me this is easier to keep up with, much like splitting your C
> code across many files.  My question is:  are there any performance or
> design considerations that prevent more projects from doing this?  I'd
> like to gather advice before I spread out the XML across 5-10 glade
> files. 
> 
> NOTE: I'm not using any Glade code generation, only .glade files for
> layout.

For large projects we recommend using libglade and a separate glade file
for each window or dialog. It is probably better than one large glade
file.

Damon