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On Sat, 2015-10-03 at 21:07 +0200, Nicklas Karlsson
(nicklas DOT karlsson17 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> Since someone brought up GTK3 but not Glade it feels like a good idea
> to bring it up. Here it is https://glade.gnome.org/ and it is
> probably also available in most Linux distributions.
> 
> It is rather fast to get started with but I can't tell if it is a
> good idea to use for gEDA or PCB but it is certainly worth a look for
> any developer who work with graphical user interface and have not
> seen it before.
> 
> Regards Nicklas Karlsson

Of course most of us know that :-)

Glade is an interface designer for GTK builder, and GTK builder is used
for reading GUI layout from XML files.

Not all people like this XML GUI design. For GTK3 that is closely
related to the new App Design.

Recently I ported the app10 example from

https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/ch01s04.html#id-1.2.3.12.5

to Nim. Well, I can see some benefits of that new style, it may be nice
for small tools. But I have problems to imagine how such a menu style
should work for large tools. I guess the main motivation was tablet
devices with touch input?

For gEDA and PCB: Some people wrote recently that they do not want GTK3
at all, they prefer GTK2. And general popularity of GTK is its own
story of course.

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