Also, in general my opinion is that Glade is completely unusable to casual programmers. Anyone who can not see this should not be designing user interfaces for general public use.

However, my views on this subject do not seem to resonate with other people. I am clue-less as to why but that is the fact.

newer glade doesn’t force you into table design anymore, and you may place controls freely on a fixed container (i consider this myself for a magic to pygtk translator).
besides, xml files can be loaded cross language and platform, and even stored in a real database for huge applications.
however glade dropped commitment to native language translation of generated code, it may be revived for, say, php.
gevergever may well build on these blocks to make a more intuitive gui: if you wish, directly build a field with a fixed container, and let a double click on a control point to a list of events, and editing the code after choosing an event.
use/revive python code generation, to avoid the xml handling.

good luck,
alex

The fact is, OLPC showed signs that it was not a project that intended on spreading freedom. The biggest sign for this is the fact that it never referred to software freedom in its public communications; it was always about “leveraging open source” instead. Thus, we shouldn’t be surprised of the fact that the OLPC project collaborated with Microsoft in order to make the hardware (somewhat) useable for Microsoft Windows. This action proves that OLPC project is a project intended to get computers into the hands of children and not a project intended to convey freedom.