[Glade-users] practical question: apps locating glade file

[Neil Zanella <nzanella gmail com> (Neil Zanella)]

On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 20:43:00 +0000, Keith Sharp <kms passback co uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 12:43 -0700, Neil Zanella wrote:

> > So the final user cannot test the application prior to
> > doing a make install with most standard ways of packaging glade files?
>
> Normally how I work is by doing:
>
>         ./configure --prefix=$HOME/tmp/install
>         make install
>         $HOME/tmp/install/bin/myapp
>
> Doing the make install rather than just make adds a little bit of
> overhead, but not a huge amount.
>
> Note that if you start to use other GTK+ and GNOME technologies you will
> need to install your app to test it, for example .desktop files, mime
> handling, GConf, GtkUIManager, etc.
>
> Keith.

Fair enough. Thanks for the feedback.

Regards,

Neil