Features that the UI redesign depends on have landed in libdazzle. This includes animated widget transitions and more.
Builder’s Flatpak of Stable and Nightly channels now bundle OSTree 2017.7 and Flatpak 0.9.6 which should improve situations where we were failing to load summary files from the host.
A painful bug where Builder (Nightly Flatpak channel) would crash when launched from the Activities menu was fixed. This was a race condition that seemed to not happen when run from the command line. After some manual debugging the issue was fixed.
To simplify future debugging, we’ve added a “Bug Buddy” like feature. If you remember bug-buddy, you’re old like me. If Builder receives a SIGSEGV, we try to fork()/exec() an instance of gdb to inspect our process. It will dump a lot of useful information for us like where files are mapped in memory, instruction pointer addresses, and any callstack that can be discovered.
Libdazzle gained some new action muxer helpers to clean up action visibility.
The new editor (perspective, grid, columns, and view) design will help us drastically simplify some of Builder’s code. But this also needs forward-porting a bunch of plugins to the new design.
The new libdazzle based menu joiner landed to help us integrate contextual menus based on file content-type as GMenu does not support “conditionals” when displaying menus.
meson test should work again for running Builder’s unit tests under the Meson build system.
Anoop blogged about his work to add a code indexer to Builder here.
Lucie blogged about her work to make documentation easily accessible while you code here.
Umang blogged about his work to improve our word completion engine here.
