On Tuesday 8 June 2010, Christian Stimming wrote: > Am Tuesday 08 June 2010 schrieb Geert Janssens: > > > On a separate note, why are we using Glade in some places and > > > GtkBuilder in others? In particular, why was there thrashing a few > > > months ago to upgrade to Glade3 and then reverse it? Everyone here is > > > aware that Glade is going away in Gnome3, right? > > > > It was me that proposed some time ago to update the dialogs to glade3 > > (and hence gtkbuilder). I was advised to wait until after 2.4 so I didn't > > pursue. I believe the switch was postponed out of fear it would > > destabilize the development tree. At that moment in time, it looked like > > 2.4 was right around the corner, but reality turned out differently. > > Exactly. Right now I would prefer to have a conversion of all .glade files > to glade3 rather soon, because otherwise all patches for glade files will > be an unreadable change of the whole file instead of a limited amount of > changed lines with the actual code change. > > However, apparently the conversion might introduce bugs just like the one > John fortunately fixed. This widget renaming was introduced by a commit of > me (sorry for that) of a bugzilla patch, but neither the contributor nor > myself would have spotted problems like these on our own. I'm surprised > there isn't any "more secure" upgrade path of the glade files available... > If anyone knows how to have those files converted *without* any widget > renamings, I would welcome to have everything converted ASAP. > If I have understood the problem John discovered correctly, there was a duplicate widget name in the glade file, although the names appeared in two different top levels (which is ok).
Glade3 has a preference setting to allow such duplicates. Perhaps this preference was set incorrectly by the original contributor ? Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
