Micah Carrick

I try to help new users with GTK+ programming and Glade as often as I have time in the mailing lists, forums, and emails in response from my tutorials. I posted this to answer some of the more frequent questions I get about GtkBuilder and Libglade.

Libglade and GtkBuilder are libraries which are used by programmers to dynamically parse an XML file describing a GUI (usually created with Glade Interface Designer) and build the GUI. Using Glade with Libglade or GtkBuilder allows for RAD (Rapid Application Development) of GTK+ applications in a multitude if programming languages such as C, C++, PHP, Python, etc. If you don't know this already, this FAQ probably will not be very relevant to you and you should instead start with: GTK+ and Glade3 GUI Programming Tutorial - Part 1

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My girlfriend bought an 8GB Sansa View recently and I've been doing a lot of tinkering with it in Ubuntu 8.04 (both AMD64 and x86). Here is some of the knowledge I've gained in regards to the Sansa View and Ubuntu Linux. Please reply if you know any of this to be incorrect.

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