Re: Glade & new GTK+ 2.5.x features

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Damon Chaplin wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 17:11, Bill Haneman wrote:
>  
>
> > Hmm
> >    
> >
> > > > <widget class="GtkLabel" id="label1">
> > > >    <property name="label" markup="&lt;b&gt;">label1</property>
> > > > </widget>
> > > >        
> > This looks really ugly to me - storing what is essentially an XML tag as
> > content!
> >    
>
> Yes, it isn't ideal. But that's what we are currently doing for markup
> anyway.
>  
Yes, but the suggested changes in your email are IMO even uglier because 
they put the escaped text in an attribute.  For in-line markup (what you 
are doing now), escaping the chars makes sense, but for global markup 
IMO it does not.

> > <>Why not
> >
> > <widget class="GtkLabel" id="label1">
> > <property name="label">label1</property>
> > <markup>
> > <b>
> > .. [etc.]
> > </markup>
> > </widget>
> >
> > i.e. any tag could be places in the <markup/> element.
Damon:

   I don't think it really warrants major changes to the XML structure like

> > <>that.
I don't see it as that much bigger a change that some of the other 
proposals, and it has the advantages of both allowing arbitrary global 
markup tags (i.e. extensible) and avoiding the escaping of the markup tags.

- Bill

> > <> We're only trying to get rid of the attributes that cover the
> > entire string. e.g. for "<b>all bold</b>" the translators don't want the
> > "<b>" and "</b>" to be in the po files.
> >
> > Damon