libglade?

[Benjamin M. Schwartz]

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Jameson "Chema" Quinn wrote:
> I'm still noodling around, trying to settle on a good design for
> develop. It looks as if libglade would be nice to have.

Prior to this summer, I had never written a GUI.  I was creating an Activity, so
I tried Glade and Anjuta.  I found them difficult, cumbersome, and unreliable.
I gave up and wrote it by hand with PyGTK.  It was easy, much easier than I
expected.

I don't see any reason to include Glade, unless you also intend to include
complete a complementary graphical interface builder tuned for Activities.  That
would be a multi-year project.

I feel strongly that you are making Develop too ambitious.  A simple Python
editor that supports collaboration and editing copies of installed activities
would be groundbreaking, and cause for celebration.  It would be the most
revered Activity of all.

Until you have released the above, please avoid spending time on version control
(which might be solved by the Journal), translatable code, fancy automatic typo
detection, GUI builders, and all the other proposed advanced functionality.
That stuff is hard, and it can wait.

- --Ben
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