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by shock 1808 days ago
> Nobody is particularly happy about having to edit the XML directly but it's the best option right now until the new tools stabilize.

You are proving GP's point for him:

> So I rather waste my time on Earth on platforms that value good UI/UX tooling.

The fact that that Glade was deprecated without a replacement being ready means exactly that GNOME does not "value good UI/UX tooling".
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_d7dt 1808 days ago
What you've said is really not correct, at all. For one, Glade is not deprecated in the sense that it doesn't work any more, it still works okay with GTK3, however it has a number of limitations that may make it difficult to use (which it always had, nothing has changed here). Two, a replacement is being worked on, I'm really not sure what your criticism is besides "go faster" which, I'm sure we all wish we could write code faster and have it work perfectly and do everything the first time, but that's not realistic.

Edit: Just to be clear here, in my opinion the new tools will likely end up being a large improvement on Glade. Glade is a pretty old application that by design does a number of weird things that don't match current best practices, you can see some of them if you read the blog post that was posted above.

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freedomben 1808 days ago
> The fact that that Glade was deprecated without a replacement being ready means exactly that GNOME does not "value good UI/UX tooling".

That's a false dichotomy. It could be (and I believe is) that things are a tradeoff. They obviously value good tooling (what developer doesn't? and look at the docs), but they value other things too and had to make a decision. With limited resources you can't do it all.

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