Today I’ll be starting on my Summer of Code project for darktable, so I thought I’d start off with a blog post about just what I’ll be doing. This Summer I’ll be focusing on UI improvements in darktable, and I have four separate tasks to complete, in this order.
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Removing the libglade dependence.
There are two ways to construct a graphical interface in software: one is to build your interface one element at a time in your source code, and the other is to use a graphical tool to build a description of your desired interface that you can use a library (libglade in our case) to construct when the program actually runs. Currently, darktable uses both techniques. Much of the user interface is provided by libglade, but some elements are also created in code. My first task for the Summer will be to remove this dependence on libglade and construct the entire interface entirely in code. You won’t see any changes in the UI as a direct result of this, but it should make it easier for other developers going forward to make modifications to the user interface.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.darktable.org/2011/05/gsoc-2011-starts-today/