Do you still want to use UIManager for the UI elements in DrawingTool?

[crojack]

DrawingTool can now run as a standalone application. It needs some code polishing but it's working. The question is should I continue to polish the UI to look more like ImageAnnotator or should I leave it as it is?

drawing-tool.mp4

[DarthGandalf]

If the annotator already works better, wouldn't it be easier to delete the old drawing tool, and substitute it with annotator?

[DarthGandalf]

Re UIManager specifically, creating the UI with the XML is probably cleaner than using the perl code. UIManager goes in that direction, though not all the way yet. But in GTK 4 UIManager is deprecated, and replaced with another way to use XML for the same purpose.

[DarthGandalf]

It turns out GTK 4 now has a better syntax than XML

https://jwestman.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/blueprint-compiler/index.html

[DarthGandalf]

This issue prompted me to try the GTK 4 prototype further... and we'll probably drop GTK altogether. The Qt prototype is so much easier to write.

Which again means that you probably should spend zero effort on the old drawing tool.