GNOME Goal: Use GtkBuilder instead of libglade

GtkBuilder was introduced in GTK+ 2.12 and is replacing libglade in the GNOME platform.

How-To

See migration instructions for detailed instructions on migrating to GtkBuilder.

To convert your .glade files, please use Glade.

Since the release of Glade 3.6 this year; Glade has been able to handle conversions in the tool (use the project preferences dialog from Edit->Preferences), Glade will in a lot of cases load a file converted with the gtk-builder-convert script without errors but its simpler to just use the tool.

If for any reason this conversion fails you can always try to use the gtk-builder-convert script, but please report bugs to Glade if this is the case.

Important: If you are using the gtk-builder-convert script it is vital that the application's UI files are editable with a GUI editor. To ensure this, please make sure that Glade3 can load and save the converted files, and that the re-saved files still work as expected. If they dont (which still happens for some files, e.g. for Epiphany and GNOME Terminal), you should instead keep the glade files in SVN, and generate the GtkBuilder files at build time.

Bugreports for GtkBuilder support in GUI design tools

Glade3 has GtkBuilder support already
Gazpacho

Comments

Note also the bug for full GtkBuilder support by intltool. (FIXED)
Suggested extension for the gtkbuilder files seems to be ".ui". See related bug report. In order for intltool to pick up files with this extension, in your POTFILES.in add following command before the new .ui files: [type: gettext/glade], like in

[type: gettext/glade]data/preferences.ui

Status of this

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State	Markup
todo	`<: #ff8080> todo`
patch	`<: #ffc849> [[GnomeBug:xxxxx\|patch]]`
done	`<: #80ff80> [[GnomeBug:xxxxx\|done]]`
not needed	`<: #80ff80> not needed`

Above are the states and corresponding markup to update the modules state table below.

Tarball	Status
Desktop
alacarte	done
brasero	not needed
bug-buddy	done
cheese	done
control-center	done
dasher	done
deskbar-applet	done
eel	not needed
ekiga	not needed
empathy	done
eog	done
epiphany	done
evince	done
evolution-data-server	done
evolution	done
evolution-exchange	done
evolution-mapi	not needed
evolution-webcal	not needed
file-roller	done
gcalctool	done
gconf-editor	not needed
gdm	done
gedit	done
gnome-applets	done
gnome-backgrounds	not needed
gnome-desktop	not needed
gnome-doc-utils	not needed
gnome-games	done
gnome-icon-theme	not needed
gnome-keyring	not needed
gnome-netstatus	done
gnome-nettool	done
gnome-mag	done
gnome-media	done
gnome-menus	done
gnome-panel	done
gnome-power-manager	done
gnome-python-desktop	to do
gnome-screensaver	done
gnome-session	done
gnome-settings-daemon	done
gnome-speech	not needed
gnome-system-monitor	not needed
gnome-system-tools	done
gnome-terminal	done
gnome-themes	not needed
gnome-user-docs	not needed
gnome-user-share	not needed
gnome-utils	done
gok	done
gstreamer	not needed
gtk-engines	not needed
gtkhtml	done
gtksourceview	not needed
gucharmap	not needed
gvfs	not needed
libgail-gnome	not needed
libgnomekbd	done
libgtop	not needed
libgweather	not needed
liboobs	not needed
librsvg	not needed
libsoup	not needed
libwnck	not needed
metacity	not needed
mousetweaks	not needed
nautilus	done
nautilus-sendto	done
orca	done
pygtksourceview	not needed
seahorse	done
seahorse-plugins	done
sound-juicer	done
swfdec-gnome	not needed
tomboy	not needed
totem-pl-parser	not needed
totem	done
vino	done
vinagre	done
vte	not needed
yelp	done
zenity	done
Desktop (to be deprecated)
libgnomeprint	not needed
libgnomeprintui	not needed
Platform
gtk+	not needed
Admin
pessulus	done
sabayon	done
Development Tools
accerciser	done
anjuta	done
devhelp	not needed
gdl	done	fixed in development version
glade3	not needed
External Dependencies
avahi	done
farsight2	done
mono	not needed
poppler	done
tracker	done
Other
abiword	to do
banshee	done
camorama	to do
conduit	done
contact-lookup-applet	done
drivel	to do
f-spot	done
giggle	done
gnome-phone-manager	done
gnome-main-menu	done
gnome-pilot	done
Gnumeric	to do
goffice	done
gossip	to do
gparted	not needed
gssdp	not needed
gst-plugins-bad	done
gthumb	done
libgnomecanvas	to do
mistelix	done
nautilus-actions	done
nemiver	done
network-manager-applet	done
notification-daemon	to do
ontv	done
pitivi	done
planner	to do
postr	patch
rhythmbox	done
tinymail	done
Ubuntu specific packages	to do
xchat-gnome	done