glade3 conversion of .glade files (Re: Should I pull 2.3.14?)

[Geert Janssens]

On Tuesday 8 June 2010, Christian Stimming wrote:
> Am Tuesday 08 June 2010 schrieb Geert Janssens:
> > > On a separate note, why are we using Glade in some places and
> > > GtkBuilder in others? In particular, why was there thrashing a few
> > > months ago to upgrade to Glade3 and then reverse it? Everyone here is
> > > aware that Glade is going away in Gnome3, right?
> >
> > It was me that proposed some time ago to update the dialogs to glade3
> > (and hence gtkbuilder). I was advised to wait until after 2.4 so I didn't
> > pursue. I believe the switch was postponed out of fear it would
> > destabilize the development tree. At that moment in time, it looked like
> > 2.4 was right around the corner, but reality turned out differently.
> 
> Exactly. Right now I would prefer to have a conversion of all .glade files
>  to glade3 rather soon, because otherwise all patches for glade files will
>  be an unreadable change of the whole file instead of a limited amount of
>  changed lines with the actual code change.
> 
> However, apparently the conversion might introduce bugs just like the one
>  John fortunately fixed. This widget renaming was introduced by a commit of
>  me (sorry for that) of a bugzilla patch, but neither the contributor nor
>  myself would have spotted problems like these on our own. I'm surprised
>  there isn't any "more secure" upgrade path of the glade files available...
>  If anyone knows how to have those files converted *without* any widget
>  renamings, I would welcome to have everything converted ASAP.
> 
If I have understood the problem John discovered correctly, there was a 
duplicate widget name in the glade file, although the names appeared in two 
different top levels (which is ok).

Glade3 has a preference setting to allow such duplicates. Perhaps this 
preference was set incorrectly by the original contributor ?

Geert