r18579 - gnucash/trunk/src/gnome/glade - Bug #607517: Migrate print.glade from glade-2 to glade-3 format.

[Geert Janssens]

On Tuesday 26 January 2010, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de> writes:
> > The problem with glade2/glade3 is that it is getting increasingly
> > difficult to obtain a glade-2 program. For example, the recent Ubuntu
> > versions (which I happen to use) don't offer any glade-2 package
> > anymore, only glade-3.
> >
> > Also, please keep a close look on what actually has changed here:
> > Except from the removed DOCTYPE line at the top of the file, the rest
> > of the changes are *solely* indentation changes. As Geert already
> > pointed out: It is important to keep the correct "interface-requires"
> > comment line in there, but apart from this, I can't see that any of
> > our target platforms wouldn't be able to read this file.
> 
> Fair enough.  I didn't take a very close look at what exactly changed in
> the file.  It's hard to follow some indentation changes.
> 
> > A completely different issue is the question whether we allow the
> > usage of new widgets, which would increase the required minimum gtk
> > version. We decided not to do this ATM, but this discussion is
> > orthogonal to whether the glade xml indentations should be kept at
> > glade-2 or can be upgraded to glade-3 file by file.
> 
> Point made.  Yes, we shouldn't require newer widgets yet.  But you're
> right that file indentation doesn't matter.  So long as an older
> libglade will read the file then I don't really have any objection.
> 
... which I just confirmed empirically. I have built GC on CentOS 5 without 
webkit and without libdbi.

It could read the glade file without issues, except for a warning in 
gnucash.trace:
* 16:55:22  WARN <libglade> unknown property `caps_lock_warning' for class 
`GtkEntry'

IMHO that's only a cosmetic issue that can be ignored.

Geert