I’ve been playing with vala a bit today. It looks nice, but it is some puzzling to get some stuff to work. I’ve modified the glade vala binding (from the ml) to make it work. autoconnecting signals still won’t work, but for the rest it works fine: using GLib; using Gtk; [CCode (cheader_filename = "glade/glade-xml.h,gtk/gtk.h")] read more