Re: GtkBuilder status

[Yevgen Muntyan <muntyan tamu edu>]

Johan Dahlin wrote:

> > > [snip]
> > > There should be only one obvious way of doing a specific task.
> > > GtkUIManager is the currently the obvious way of creating menus and
> > > toolbars
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > Here you go, python programmer in action :)
> >
> > Seriously speaking, GtkUIManager is not and may not be perfect. The
> > single fact that it doesn't know that
> > an action may need data in addition to callback may make it very hard to
> > use. While it's stupid to use
> > glade-built menus in an application which does require merging ui, it's
> > just overkill to use GtkUIManager
> > in simple applications that have more than one window: I want a callback
> > to be executed with the toplevel
> > window as an argument, and I can do it in glade; but to do it in
> > GtkUIManager I have to break my head
> > or arms or write custom GtkAction subclass, or use g_object_set_data,,
> > all in *code*, not in glade. And then,
> > there is GtkToggleAction, GtkRadioAction, I need to create the actions
> > themselves, all just because I can't
> > make a simple menu in glade. It doesn't sound right.
> >    
>
> It'll be fairly easy to add support for this in the signal tag,
> so you can specify the data argument. It would require two attributes
> one for the data and one for the type, then you'd do:
>
> <signal name="activated" handler="quit_cb" data="window1"
>        data-type="GObject"/>
>
> void quit_cb (GtkAction *action, GtkWindow *window);
>  
No sir, I don't want that action there! I want
void my_cb (GtkWidget *window). It will be fairly easy
to use connect_swapped, of source.

> I never claimed GtkUIManager was perfect. I just said it was the obvious way
> of creating menus and toolbars. It might be overkill in smaller
> applications, but if they use gtkbuilder they won't even notice.
>  
Well, I personally don't care about what's inside as long as I am not
forced to know that. If everything will work just like as it did before
(namely the "connect this callback to this menu item"), then it's
perfectly fine.

Yevgen