Re: [Multignometerm-devel] MGT Development

[Cristiano De M. <dem...@na...>]

> Folks,
Hi Mike,

> I don't know if I will be a help or a hindrance, but I'm willing to
> attempt to help in mgt development.  I've downloaded the mgt2 from cvs
it's a great news!!

> and have finally gotten it to compile (problems with autogen.sh, and
> still doesn't like to be compiled as root).  And I can now get a mgt2
> terminal to the screen.  
a first hard step is done so :)

> I'm also fully employed, and I have a family, but I have been hacking
> around for quite a while, so hopefully I will be a positive.   
I'm sure of that ;-)

> Here's where I am right now.  I can get the mgt2 terminal to the
> screen, and it looks great, but when I click on a button, I get the
> following errors;
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> (mgt2:11993): libglade-WARNING **: Expected <glade-interface>.  Got
> <GTK-Interface>.
> 
> (mgt2:11993): libglade-WARNING **: did not finish in PARSER_FINISH
> state
> 
> ** (mgt2:11993): WARNING **: Error loading
> `/usr/share/mgt/glade/multi-gnome-terminal.glade'
> ~
>   (mgt2:11993): libglade-WARNING **: Expected <glade-interface>.  Got
> <GTK-Interface>.
> 
> (mgt2:11993): libglade-WARNING **: did not finish in PARSER_FINISH
> state
> 
> ** (mgt2:11993): WARNING **: Error loading
> `/usr/share/mgt/glade/multi-gnome-terminal.glade'
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

all preferences windows have not been ported yet so it's ok
one big task indeed is to port such windows to glade2 using GConf
 
> Here is an idea of where I'm at, and you can judge if I'll be
> helpful.  At this point, I'm a bit stumped.  I have not used glade,
sure you overcame a first high barrier and now you can hack on mgt2...
it's great!

>  though it appears to be a gui builder(?)...  Is the file it's looking
> for something I should just 
yes glade is a gui builder I used for creating preferences windows

> bring from somewhere else, or do I make it, or...
> 
> BTW, I'm running RH9, with glibc 2.3.2.   More details on request.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mike
welcome Mike!
if you have a chance come also to gnome irc (irc.gnome.org channel #MGT)
there we can discuss the future steps to do more accurately, ok?

					have a good day Cristiano

-- 
  Cristiano De Michele,
  Department of Physics,
  University "Federico II" of Naples