gEDA-dev: gEDA + libglade

[Felipe Balbi]

Hello Peter,

On 4/3/07, Peter Clifton <pcjc2 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 11:17 -0400, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Why not use libglade to parse gEDA's interfaces dinamically??
> >
> > It would make the code really easier to understand... we would only
> > need signal_handlers instead of coding the whole interface. And also,
> > would become a lot easier to modify the interface. One would just need
> > glade-2 (or glade-3 or gazpacho) to create a whole new interface...
> >
> > And interface changes wouldn't require recompiling the source-code...
>
> Glade has its plus points and its minus points.
>
> The biggest reason not to do this now, is that the libgeda backend needs
> some work on its data-structures and API. Until that is done, the code
> is not going to get much easier.
>
> If you think the GUI code is what makes libgeda + gschem hard to
> understand, you may have missed something... there is not that much code
> in there which Glade would simplify. Most of the concepts and structures
> involved are not GUI.
>
> I do admit that in some places, it could do with simplification. The
> toolbars for example, would be better dynamically generated.

So, libgeda is the best place to work on... to help geda-dev community?

Do you have any points what should be rewritten ??



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Best Regards,

Felipe Balbi
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