[Glade-users] [Fwd: Re: XML to Source Code?]

[Tristan Van Berkom]

2010/2/25 José Félix Ontañón <felixonta at gmail.com>:
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>
> Well Alexey, maybe my widgets are not designed for re-use them in
> other projects.
> Think about a sublclass of gtk.StatusIcon with clic-events captured
> and some menus, i don't think publish as a library would be
> interesting for no one. Don't you think?
>

Hi,
    its perfectly normal to write widgets as part of your project
that are not intended for distribution, i.e. they are not
intended for use in other projects.

I think its even becoming a more popular coding practice
to encode application logic into derived screen objects, which
is why I would really like to add some UI magic to Glade
to help automate the procedure of deriving widgets to be
implemented in your code...

That being said; I think the best practice for this context
of application-use only widgets is to simply include a catalog
in your project repository and distribution tarballs, probably
in the same directory you store your glade file(s), and you
might include a note somewhere about having to use
the GLADE_CATALOG_PATH ... (hopefully Glade will
eventually automatically load catalogs that the glade file
depends on from a relative directory or same directory).

Cheers,
        -Tristan