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Thanks Lluis, I'll look forward to having a play with it. The lack of a
GUI designer is one of those things that make it difficult for me to
convince my employer that Mono on Linux is a viable option, and we've
already missed out on one potential job, converting one of our apps to
run on Linux.


regards

Tracy Barlow

On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 00:24 +0100, Lluis Sanchez - lluis at ximian.com
wrote:
> El sáb, 25-02-2006 a las 08:19 +1000,
> monodevelop-list.1.tracyanne at spamgourmet.com escribió:
> > Thanks Lluis, what sort of timeline are we looking at until there is a
> > functional GUI designer in MonoDevelop? I don't have a lot of free time,
> > but if there is anything I can do to help, I would be happy to do so.
> > Testing, documentation spring to mind, perhaps debuging.
> 
> My plan is to commit to SVN next week, leave maybe two weeks for testing
> and do an MD release. Some features will probably be missing, such as a
> menu editor, but other than that it should be quite functional.
> 
> > 
> > regards
> > 
> > Tracy Barlow
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 18:39 +0100, Lluis Sanchez - lluis at ximian.com
> > wrote:
> > > El vie, 24-02-2006 a las 07:34 +1000,
> > > monodevelop-list.1.tracyanne at spamgourmet.com escribió:
> > > > What's the story on this? Can one use Glade-3 with Monodevelop, and if
> > > > so how? or do we wait until the integrated GUI designer is released with
> > > > Monodevelop?
> > > 
> > > The story is the following:
> > > 
> > > When the first Glade-3 development snapshot was released some months
> > > ago, it looked like a good chance to integrate a GUI designer in
> > > MonoDevelop. Glade-3 provided, for the first time, a set of widgets
> > > which could be easily integrated into an application like MD. Moreover,
> > > the development of Stetic (the GUI designer specially designed for Mono)
> > > was stopped since Dan (the maintainer) had to move to another Novell
> > > project. That's why the glade-3 integration work started.
> > > 
> > > However, after doing the main integration work, it became clear that
> > > Glade-3 fell a bit short of functionality (in its current development
> > > status) for what we want to achieve with MonoDevelop. So, given the fact
> > > that I'll have to spend time hacking on a GUI designer in order to match
> > > the needs of MD, I prefer hacking on Stetic rather than on Glade-3. So
> > > that's what I've been doing the last weeks. I plan to commit the new
> > > integrated designer next week.
> > > 
> > > To summarize: MonoDevelop will have its own GUI designer (based on
> > > Stetic). There won't be Glade-3 integration (unless somebody else wants
> > > to continue the work for some reason).
> > > 
> > > Lluis.
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
>