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[Felix Duesenburg]

Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> On 2008-04-18, at 06:07, Felix Duesenburg wrote:
>> I always thought this is awkward. Shouldn't we do it e.g. in the 
>> fashion the Qt toolkit works: with a preprocessor that turns the xml 
>> gui definitions into code at compile time, with the language being a 
>> configurable parameter. These things are not dynamic anyway, so why 
>> aren't they part of the main app?
>
> Because then they wouldn't be skinnable or editable and you wouldn't 
> be able to go in and say "if you remove this section from your overlay 
> panel xml file you can get rid of the damned release keys button".

It doesn't occur to me that this is a feature people really want. Is it? 
If those who like to edit their gui files happen to be mostly developers 
(which I cannot verify), wouldn't it suffice that they can compile their 
own? The whole thing would run faster and more reliable.

I've made this point a little earlier in another thread about user 
contributions of language translations, but I guess it went under 
because it was beyond the scope of that thread.