Re: Anjuta UI work
5. April 2010
Today, I finally took the time to fix the optical trash from the embedded tab change I did some time ago:
Voilà, tabs look like they should now. Actually this wasn’t that easy to implement and requires a custom GtkContainer widget which is a bit painful to write. There might be some possible improvements in using the correct border/shadow for the notebook but I haven’t figured out a better way until now.
Making GNOME 3.0 attractive for developers
5. March 2010
This post is a spin off from the recent foundation-list discussion regarding the future direction of GNOME. It was pointed out that GNOME might not be a very attractive platform for new developers. The reasons was among others that there is nothing like a standard way of developing GNOME applications. Of course, everybody is somehow using automake and autoconf and some editor and bugzilla but not more than that.
Compared to windows, about any new developer will stumble over Visual Studio. On Mac, it is the same with XCode. For these tools there is tons of documentation, tutorial and books available and they are actively promoted with the platform.
For GNOME 3.0 we should also start having something like this. This doesn’t mean than present developers have to change their development model but they should be aware that their personal model might not be suitable for new developers especially those with no Linux/free software experience. As such, we should promote the tools we have to make life of new developers easier and ensure that they work with the workflow of a specific project.
In a perfect world, I would announce a hackfest here now, but I won’t 
But I would encourage people to help anyway. I have setup a wiki page to collect ideas. The major points are in my opinion:
- Write good tutorials how to build GNOME applications without touching command-line
- Setup a website (maybe on library.gnome.org) hosting all the information for getting started with GNOME development
Everybody is invited to contribute!
For my fellow Vala hackers…
23. February 2010
…I proudly present support for Vala symbols in the Anjuta Symbol Manager. This will mean you can browser and search your project symbols like you can in C and JavaScript. This will either work with the automake backend of the project manager for automake >= 1.11 with Vala support or at your option with the new directory backend for automake < 1.11 or custom Makefile rules.
Credits go to Abderrahim Kitouni (former GSoC student) for writing the vala parser for ctags. We hope to add full Vala support including autocompletion and probably debugging before 3.0.
In related news, Anjuta 2.29.91 “Vala la révolution” was released with many stability fixes today. Give it some testing. Naba already did an awesome job in filing bugs for a lot of small but annoying issues. Follow his example
Javascript support in anjuta
21. December 2009
Finally, after far too long time I found time today to merge Maxim’s great Javascript support patches from GSoC 2009 into master. You find screenshots and more information on his blog.
Thanks a lot for your work Maxim!
P.S.: Remember that scipting is for loosers while C is for real (wo)men
New auto-completion engine in anjuta
24. November 2009
The great people from gedit/gtksourceview finally implemented a new completion engine for GtkSourceView which allows us to drop lot of ugly custom code in Anjuta. But it also has some cool features:
- Combine auto-completions from different sources (called “providers”)
- Add auto-completions in an asynchronous way
- Support to add extra information to the auto-completions
For now, Anjuta uses only the first two but it’s really planned to add API Help for symbols.
Despite having a more stable and tested code and a nicer UI that means that he will never be disturbed while typing because the editor is searching for auto-completions to appear. Instead all this now happens in background and it really feels fast. This also gives us a possibility to add macros/snippets directly into the auto-completion framework. Screenshot:
There are also some other interesting things coming soon:
- a better engine for C++ (auto-completion of class-members, etc.)
- GSoc JavaScript plugin which needs to be merged
- a new bison/flex based automake parser as project-manager backend (probably won’t be finished until 3.0)
- a completely rewritten git UI
Anjuta UI work
12. June 2009
Based on the awesome work from Joel Holdsworth making it possible to add custom widgets to the dock item grips, I finally patched anjuta to use this ability. This can save quite a bunch of pixels:
Anjuta with new buttons in grip feature
Old pixel-wasting version
There may be still some style issues especially for the message window tabs. Suggestions welcome!
PPA for current anjuta releases
10. June 2009
I just created a tiny ppa which contains anjuta and gdl 2.26.2 as Ubuntu is a bit slow in updating those. If you are a jaunty user I really recommend an update to the latest stable version which contains some important bug-fixes:
Anjuta News Blog
6. April 2009
Just some self-promotion: The Anjuta News Blog already has some interesting entries and might be worth reading. It should hopefully appear on news.gnome.org soon, too
Anjuta 2.26.0 released
20. March 2009
So, yeah, we relaesed another version some days ago. You may want to read the previous posts about the new features here. Most notibly in the final version was the addition of version control information to the file viewer. You can now see the status of your files using an emblem system like the famous TurtoiseSVN for Windows. It is actually meant to also work for git and we hope to get this done very soon in the next stable versions. There are some bugs preventing it at the moment. Otherwise everybody has done a great job and we significantly reduced the amount of bugs (from about 120 to 70, exluding enhancements)
As usual you can get the lastest version here: http://download.gnome.org/sources/anjuta/2.26
Another interesting thing for some people is probably a new alpha version of the vala plugin. It’s still a bit buggy and incomplete but I would invite some of the vala developers out there to try and improve it. It’s completely written in Vala so you can have some fun in this area!
Happy coding!
Dear lazyweb
25. February 2009
Has anybody experienced with gtk+ an idea about this bug?
Thanks!
P.S.: Hello Planet Openismus! And yes, I am working on this hackergotchi thing…