Submitted by A final release of Gideon Designer for GTK+ 2.8 is available. Gideon is a modern professional RAD tool for GTK+. Most notable features include a tree-based property explorer, advanced support for multiple selections, and a flexible GuiXml resource format.
how is this different from glade?
It’s a widget that uses a different schema that supports nested objects and arrays.
One big difference might be that its equivalent of libglade is GPL, so only GPL programs may link to it.
Actually I found out that libglade is LGPL and glade is GPL.
There were millions of names to choose for their Gtk Desiger app, but these guys decided to go with the only one that would clash with a KDE project: KDevelop 3.0 (current line) was called “Gideon”.
This is at least as stupid as when the Mozilla Foundation chose the “Firebird” name for their standalone browser, effectively clashing with the Firebird relational database.
Edited 2006-08-18 18:21
Question is what could have prompted someone to have named the kde program anything but kgideon?
No this is not flamebait. I’m just looking for a feature-by-feature analysis from someone who has used both productively.