Re: Glade & new GTK+ 2.5.x features

[Tim Evans <t evans aranz com>]

Damon Chaplin wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 15:45, Bill Haneman wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 20:36, Damon Chaplin wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > > OK, scratch that idea. I've thought of a better way:
> > >
> > >  <widget class="GtkLabel" id="label1">
> > >    <property name="label" font="bold,italic,x-large">label1</property>
> > >  </widget>
> > >
> > > I think that is fairly clean.
> >
> > Yeah, nice.  I assume the comma-delimited list could in theory include
> > any markup tags, i.e. not restricted to a particular set of known
> > values...
> >
> > Howabout 'style' instead of 'font'? Since possible global markup could
> > affect something not entirely "font"-specific.
>
>
> The main concern of the translators is the really common markup, like
> the font weights, styles, and sizes. In which case we could use the
> known values like above.
>
> If we want to support all possible tags it would start getting ugly
> again:
>
>   <widget class="GtkLabel" id="label1">
>      <property name="label" markup="foreground=&quot;blue&quot weight=&quot;bold&quot; size=&quot;x-large&quot;">label1</property>
>   </widget>
>
> I'd be OK with that as well. Though it doesn't look like people are going to agree anyway.

I like this idea, but I think it would look a lot better written as:

   <widget class="GtkLabel" id="label1">
      <property name="label"
         markup:foreground="blue"
         markup:weight="bold"
         markup:size="x-large">label1</property>
   </widget>

This namespace could even be extended to markup elements, which would 
make the strings easier for a human to read,and more in keeping with the 
intent of XML:

   <property name="label">Normal, <markup:i>Italic</markup:i></property>

I realize that this may not be very easy to implement.

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Tim Evans
Applied Research Associates NZ
http://www.aranz.com/