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[David Castellanos <davidcaste@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

Right now I'm implementing account management in Genesis. I have a
screen called "Account Properties", which is used to modify the
settings of an account. I just realized that "Account Properties" and
"Account Wizard" share most of the source code, and its functionality
is almost the same. What about if we get rid of the "Account Wizard"
screen? "Account Properties" could be used instead, just like Mail
Notification[1] does.

Something else, I thought that in "Account Management" screen, the
gtk.TreeView could show two columns, the first one with the icon of
the service and the name of the account, and the second one with the
sources being synchronized. Is this ok? Another option I thought about
was to automatically create account names of the form 'XXX@YYY', where
XXX is the username and YYY the service. For example, 'david@Google'.
But I haven't implemented this, it's just an idea.

Cheers!!!

[1] http://www.nongnu.org/mailnotify/

2009/11/9 Frederik Elwert <frederik.elwert@xxxxxx>:
> Hi!
>
> Am Samstag, den 07.11.2009, 22:11 +0100 schrieb David Castellanos:
>> 2009/11/7 Frederik Elwert <frederik.elwert@xxxxxx>:
>> >      * GTK yields a RuntimeWarning because the settings dialog and the
>> >        server assistant are in the same ui file, but only signals for
>> >        one are connected at a time. Glade allowed to load only one
>> >        top-level widget from a glade file, but I think Builder always
>> >        loads all. So should we split the two widgets in separate ui
>> >        files, or just ignore the warning?
>>
>> You're right. I don't remember where I read it, but it was advised to
>> use only one top-level widget per file. For example take a look in MS
>> sources, there are as many .ui files as top-level widgets. If you
>> want, take for example the preferences_dialog.ui from MS and change
>> the preference strings... I was careful with Gnome UI advices like
>> element spacing and so.
>
> I just pushed the changes to the gtkbuilder branch. I would be happy if
> you could review the changes before I merge them into trunk.
>
> You’re right, your dialog looks somewhat better regarding spacing etc.
> But it turned out to be easier to just split the existing files. We
> could look into more HIG compliance later on.
>
>> >      * intltool-extract seems to have issues with ui files instead of
>> >        glade files. This is why update-translations.sh currently fails.
>>
>> Mmmm, I don't remember to have problems with this at all, I extracted
>> the strings with the command: intltool-extract --type="gettext/glade"
>> *.ui, and then xgettext... etc. If you want, I could take a look on
>> this.
>
> I think I got it. I just forgot to change all relevant files from glade
> to ui. Should work now.
>
> Cheers,
> Frederik
>
>
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