Category Archives: GNOME

GIO python bindings

Late yesterday evening I did a new release of pygobject. The first one in about 10 months, I should do this more often I know. The most important thing featured in this release is the addition of GIO bindings. I … Continue reading

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Simplified tabbing support in Gtk+

There has been a couple of posts recently on Planet GNOME mention the increase usage of tabs in applications. I decided to write up a quick patch for GTK+ which makes it even easier to add tab support. With the … Continue reading

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Introduction to GObject Introspection

This was also sent to gtk-devel today: == Introduction == GObject-introspection is a package which will collect and extend the API metadata for GObject based libraries. The main motivation of this work is to centralize all introspection information required to … Continue reading

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ASCII art User Interface mockups

I have the pleasure of knowing the great mpt. He actually spent a couple of months in Brazil back in 2006 and we ended up sharing the same apartment during this period. One of the great things he masters is … Continue reading

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Using GtkListStore in Python

I often end up reading code using GtkListStore in Python, either in existing projects or on irc when someone asks me to fix their program. It’s pretty straight-forward to using the GtkTreeModel interface and it’s various implementations such as GtkListStore … Continue reading

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Enough wakeups in Python programs

Yesterday I released two new releases of PyGObject and PyGTK. The most important change in both of releases is the support of a new API, available only in the svn version of Python which will prevent gobject and gtk from … Continue reading

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Future of GNOME language bindings

First of all, let me show you a screenshot showing what have been hacking on in my spare time over the last two weeks or so: . It’s showing a simple web browser written in python using WebKit, this is … Continue reading

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ObjectList tutorial

This blog post will give you an introduction to the ObjectList widget which is a part of the kiwi library. * Rationale Creating graphical user interfaces which displays a sequence of objects is a common task. In the GTK+ toolkit … Continue reading

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Valgrind & Andvare

Yesterday I on a bus ride from São Paulo I had the opportunity to see some of the developments tools available on OSX. Shark and mallocdebug are quite interesting, bling-bling for the developer masses. When I woke up this morning … Continue reading

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GtkBuilder has landed!

Today, after more than 2 years and 120 comments I could finally close #172535, adding support for loading interfaces created by UI designers in Gtk+. GtkBuilder replaces libglade, it uses a similar XML format but also supports the following: GtkTreeViews … Continue reading

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