Bug#651264: glade: please provide an upgrade method for glade 3.6 projects

[Michael Biebl]

On 07.12.2011 10:13, A Mennucc wrote:
> Package: glade
> Version: 3.10.2-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> hi                           
> 
> We have a long running project, that uses gtk2 to visualize. We
> built all interfaces with glade (version 3.6.7, in debian Squeeze)
> 
> Lately I upgraded my laptop to Debian/wheezy: there glade is 3.10.2
> and it is unable to open the project saved by glade 3.6.7, it prints
>  Couldnt recognize GtkBuilder xml, skipping ....
> 
> This is quite annoying. It means that, if I upgrade all of my 
> boxes to Wheezy, I will lose the ability 
> to edit the glade projects. This is quite annoying.
> 
> I did a manual comparison of my glade files with a glade file
> saved by glade 3.10, and I found out that I could adapt "easily"
> by hand, in two steps
> 1) replace the initial and end tags
>  glade-interface  ->  interface
> 2) replace all widget tags
>  widget  ->  object
> 
> With the above changes, I could load the project in glade 3.10
> 
> Please provide some way to automatically do that conversion
> (or, provide a way to edit glade 3.6 project with glade 3.10)

Have you tried gtk-builder-convert (libgtk2.0-dev)?

> ps2: another way to solve this problem would be to package 
>  gnome 3.8 in Debian/wheezy....

This was discussed some time ago and we don't plan to do that.


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