After more investigation, it looks like there are differences between on how glade 3.[4-5].x and 3.6.7 handle defaults properties, if someone had a working glade 3.[4-5].x installation, he could generate a much smaller diff. Sadly this is my only machine. The glade file is also affected by this [1] bug, on glade 3.6.7: it looks like all the vbox are treated like hbox. The application itself still works fine, but it is my understanding it could be broken with future versions of GTK+ (I may be wrong on this though).
After more investigation, it looks like there are differences between on how glade 3.[4-5].x and 3.6.7 handle defaults properties, if someone had a working glade 3.[4-5].x installation, he could generate a much smaller diff. Sadly this is my only machine. The glade file is also affected by this [1] bug, on glade 3.6.7: it looks like all the vbox are treated like hbox. The application itself still works fine, but it is my understanding it could be broken with future versions of GTK+ (I may be wrong on this though).
[1] https:/ /bugzilla. gnome.org/ show_bug. cgi?id= 594231