Quoting msevior@...79...:
I still don't undestand why you guys don't use glade and libglade. It really worked well for the AbiWord project.
Maybe you need to rethink this decision. libglade has been fully ported and debugged on windows. The gnumeric on windpws project has no trouble with it.
Jon Cruz articulated one set of issues, but another which is important to me personally is that glade (when used for code generation in particular, but even if you're just using libglade) seriously gets in the way of refactoring.
It's a bigger issue in Inkscape than in AbiWord or Gnumeric because we necessarily have so many more custom UI elements.
It's not that we haven't tried Glade. We earnestly tried it but found it very burdensome in this regard, back in the days when we were still Sodipodi.
-mental