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Glade was the best. Drag&Drop, creates a language-independent XML file, which your program loads and populates with events. * Don't have to change the program
by david_draco 6y ago
Glade was the best. Drag&Drop, creates a language-independent XML file, which your program loads and populates with events.
* Don't have to change the program to change the UI
* Don't have to change the UI to change the program behaviour
* Easy to include in version control
It was almost akin to HTML and progressive JS.
I wish there was a GUI toolkit where you would specify what kind of interaction you need, and it builds the right GUI elements with the right workflow following best practices by itself. Sort of like what Ruby/ActiveRecord does for databases.
- gecko 6y agoPerhaps I'm missing something, but why the past tense for "Glade"? I thought that was still a completely viable thing to use these days, but I confess I haven't done any Linux GUI dev in several years.
- david_draco 6y agoHmm, yes, perhaps I was mistaken there.