[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Gazpacho impressions

[From: Thanos Panousis]

Hello list,

I started using the Gazpacho user interface builder yesterday. I have to
point out the troubles that I came into, which made me fall back in straight
procedural hildon gui building(OK, I also wanted to get a better
understanding of the process).

1. There are some errors in the tutorial. This was pointed out by a previous
poster in the list. Sometimes the DISPLAY variable has to be set before
running some command, for example:
this tries to launch the maemo specific things on my desktop X diplay, not
too practical:

[sbox-TARGET: ~] # inside Scratchbox
[sbox-TARGET: ~] > gazenv-init.sh start

Instead use:
DISPLAY=:2 gazenv-init.sh start
2. While working with gazpacho, even if I had done all the DISPLAY settings
correctly(I presume) still it didn't recieve clicks and keyboard 100% of the
time. I had to press stuff like ctrl+F that opens a menu to get clicks get
to the gazpacho window. This is probably minor, just a nuisance.
3. Bugs in gazpacho: Tried to create a gtk.Button with a jpg image on it.
While it showed on the preview window and all, when I reloaded the .glade
file my button was empty every time.
4. Probably due to the above, python complained about something in the glade
file and my (very simple helloworld) program crashed.

Any insights from other gazpacho users? I would say that it a very valuable
tool, since applications can be built really really fast. Moreover, I do not
agree with the python loading times issues that other users here are talking
about. ALL applications at least in my 770 take at least 1 sec to open
initially(well, the ones that actually do something usefull). Adding 1-2
seconds upon that is not much of a usability difference.

Cheers.
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