Re: [gtkmvc-users] Quickly

[Luke M. <luk...@in...>]

On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 22:42 +0200, Tobias Weber wrote:
> On 13.05.2010, at 06:02, Luke Morton wrote:
> >>> I'd remove the widget subclassing stuff. It's not necessary in
> gtkmvc and potentially confusing.
> That's not what I meant. The subclasses of gtk.Window or Dialog that
> the Ubuntu template uses can be removed, 

I thought that might be what you meant. I'll have a go, but last time I
tried that I made a mess of things (I'm relatively inexperienced in GTK+
programming). I have had a bit of experience writing gtkrc themes
though, and being able to write a rule for a particular application is
nice, and only possible if that application can be uniquely identified.
So from that perspective, I think the subclasses are actually a good
idea.

> along with the Glade catalogs. Just replace them with the regular ones
> in the XML. You already moved all code into the gtkmvc.View
> subclasses.

I'll try, but again, I'm not 100% sure what I'm doing :)

> I notice you include gtkmvc from SVN. I'm all for copying the
> framework into each application, but it should probably be a release,
> or at least have a version number that makes it clear that the
> documentation on the website may not apply.

I had to do that for builder support. But you're right, it should have a
version number.

If the changes to templates regarding subclassing and glade catalogs
mean that significant portions of the code inherited from
ubuntu-application have to be changed then I'd rather not do that. In
Quickly 0.4 it's possible to inherit commands (like quickly design) so
we benefit from any future bug fixes/improvements to those commands
Since Quickly isn't yet stable (from an API point of view), this is all
the more important.

Nevertheless, I'll look into both and and see if I can do them.

> This is a great chance to show more people how nice Observer is :)

Is there a particular example you'd like me to include? Or do you just
mean in general?

Luke.