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Glade 2 Tutorial
Renartthefox writes "Rikke D. Giles has written a new tutorial for Glade II. Glade is a program designed to enable the quick building of graphical user interfaces for GTK+ and GNOME applications. However, it can be used with any desktop environment in linux, as long as the GTK+ and/or GNOME libraries are installed."
If I'm not wrong, glade files can also be importd in qt designer (qt's gui builder). Nice work.
"It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." - Anton LaVey
Getting rid of xul(xml user interface language) would be good for responsive gui.
Finally, an article that defines what the thing is instead of assuming that we've all heard of 'Zxzzy Underlayer II.3M'.
Where's the pdf/ps/etc? Ok, I know, pdfs are not GNU, but still. I like reading tutorials in paper form rather than html. I'm sure there is a way for "rapid" translation.
Why am i not surprised that Slashdot readers haven't heard of air freshener....
Don't make too big of a deal about Glade. With all the recent frivolous lawsuits, SC Johnson Wax will be all over 'em.
Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.
Can we have articles like this listed and catalogued in a single place somewhere ?
If I happen to be wanting to learn Glade 2 now, this article will be really useful. Otherwise, I could bookmark it for future reference (assuming it'll still be there in a few months time) - or download it, and save it on a directory somewhere.
What about having somewhere such as the Linux Documentation Project keep a collection of articles like this (or keep a list of dated bookmarks to useful external articles) - simultaneously making both the Linux Documentation Project, and the articles in links to, more useful resources to more people.
Pah, Glade, when I was at school all we had was Visual Basic....oh...hold on...
There is a c/c++ IDE option if needed, but its convoluted as hell! .NET by Jeroen Frijters..."
from the faq:
"...you can import the glade toolkit bindings into Eclipse running on Mono using the open source IKVM Java virtual machine for
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miguel
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What is the linux community coming to when people actually write tutorials on how to use applications. Man pages with so many options they resemble a form of Hieroglyph were just about acceptable. Worse was to follow a lot half heart how-to's which fortunately seldom explained what you actually wanted.
Next thing you know linux apps will be come fully documented, with samples and context sensitive help. Anyone will be able to use them !!
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Too bad Quartz Extreme isn't actually "an OpenGL-accelerated desktop." It only accelerates compositing (window effects), so it's not in the same league as stuff like the Longhorn UI or E17's EVAS, which can actually use OpenGL to accelerate visually complex drawing. Also, Apple's implementation isn't that great. It stores huge bitmaps everywhere, even though DisplayPDF is inherently vector based, and as mentioned above, doesn't take good advantage of the capabilities of current cards. For example, it won't accelerate line drawing, because current cards can only do AA line drawing through OpenGL, which Quartz2D doesn't use.
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
GNOME has some wonderful technologies at it's disposal, but the documentation is crap. Reading someone else's code is not the best way to learn imho, and some decent documentation covering bonobo etc is just what the doctor ordered.
The problem with slashdot is that most of its users were bullied and stuffed into lockers as kids!
yep, there is one. plugger plugin along with an installation of ghostscript will do on Linux. although this might not save you space ghostscript is a lot easier to find than acroread since it has dual licensing and older version are GPL.
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Nonetheless, I work with Glade on weekends for fun. Here are some other interesting links that you'll undoubtedly enjoy:
http://developer.gnome.org/
http://www.daa.com.au/~james/pygtk/
http://www.student.oulu.fi/~jlof/gtkglarea/
But what Linux needs is a fresh look and a fresh batch of research into creating a truly intuitive desktop computing experience.
Windows isn't intuitive, but because it's so popular, people have had to learn how to get work done and consistent interfaces across Microsoft applications helps this.
But if Linux hackers want a new crowd of free software users, they need to attract them not only with the low price of open source software, but a high intuitivity index of the software itself.
Someone please make Linux more easy to use. It's too hard.
Something strange is happening here. I am not seeing any kind of adverse effect to the machine from being slashdotted. Its chugging along fine, happily serving up pages.
/proc/cpuinfo
Hmm, must be some kind of multi GHz Quad Processor heavy iron type of box, right?
Nope.
P75, 48megs of ram. No kidding.
cat
model : Pentium 75+
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
bogomips : 40.04
Granted, I'm only seeing 109 current connections to the web server right now. But its running just fine. This is probably mostly due to our colocation hosts at VDomainHosting having enough available bandwidth to serve things up in a timely manner. Thanks guys!
And thanks to Rikke for such a great tutorial. She presented it a few weeks ago at the Linux Fest NW event, to a packed room.
Brian
KPLUG Webmaster
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I learned about glade by trying DIASCE2, a Visual IDE for Glade. Before Glade I couldn't grok automake, pkg-config, much less GTK; by writing a simple Hello Glade World I grokked it all, wrote my own build scripts, and started writing Gnome apps.
Glade was only a stepping stone for me to using the raw GTK api. I find GTK in C to be quite elegant. The only real wart I found is that Popped-up menus are reparented in a fake GtkWindow, where as top levels aren't. Baring that, raw GTK in C is good enough for me.
"The world is fundamentally functional and relational." -- Quote from a grayheaded Silicon Valley dude, there's wisdom.
One of the best features is the plethora of plug ins available here
It's a very good thing they didn't try to make an IDE, because one already exists: Anjuta. And best of all, Anjuta not only offers all the usual editor/compiler mumbo-jumbo, but it also calls Glade for GUI creation.
If you're trying to start out GNOME/GTK development, Anjuta's the IDE of choice (as far as I can see). Of course, all I did in it was make a little "Hello, world!" app that would hide the message when you click a button. But it was very simple to make and had full i18n support -- for 5 minutes from start to finish, that's not half-bad :).
Not trying to flamebait but it'll be a cold day in hell when Microsoft uses openGL over it's own DirectX technology.
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Pressing the Build button is about the worst thing you could ever do in Glade.
.glade file, and then use libglade to load and build the interface at runtime. .glade files are very simple to parse so building the interface at runtime is very fast, and you have far more freedom to alter the interface at any point in the future.
Save the
Don't press Build!
I put this entry into the printers section of smb.conf on my Samba server. This lets everyone on the network create PDF files from any application that can print. The created PDFs are available in the shared /PDF directory on the server and are named for the user that made them. This could probably be improved, but it works pretty well as is.
/tmp /usr/bin/ps2pdf %s.ps %s.pdf; rm -f %s.ps; mv %s.pdf /PDF/%m.$$.pdf
[PS2PDF]
comment = PS to PDF
printable = yes
public = yes
guest ok =yes
read only = yes
create mode = 0700
directory =
printer name = PS2PDF Printer
printer driver = HP Color LaserJet PS
print command = mv %s %s.ps;
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