On Thu, Jun 15, 2017, at 07:22 PM, Martin Owens wrote:
Dear developers,
I've just completed a section of work which you can find here:
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But if we have good code that has some good error messages and such, a designer could open the ui file in glade and mess about with the widget locations, paddings and a bunch of other visual pieces.
What are all your thoughts?
Hi,
I'll try to give it a good once-over, but might take till this weekend.
The plans to expose those for user configuration have always been around, so the general direction is good.
I'll have to take a look at recent Gtk Builder stuff, but when we had done overviews in the past it was the wrong approach. That is, it was far more like XUL and a focus on pixel-tweaking instead of a good HTML/CSS split with HTML focusing on the structure. We probably want to keep to more of a logical structure in the XML and not a physical one. (BTW, accessibility test cases help highlight issues in this arena)
Also, if I remember correctly the main reason for not having a few files exposed directly was that code crafting many of the gtk actions was not clean enough to allow for placement in different areas (e.g. vertical instead of horizontal). Following up on getting the rest of such abstract 'actions' happy-happy in UI land would probably be good at this point.