Builder GTK 4 Porting, Part IV – Happenings in GNOME

This week was a little slower as I was struggling with an adjustment to my new medication. Things progress nonetheless.

Text Editor

I spent a little time this week triaging some incoming Text Editor issues and feature requests. I’d really like this application to get into maintenance mode soon because I have plenty of other projects to maintain.

Added support for gnome-text-editor - to open a file from standard input, even if you’re communicating to a single instance application from terminal.
Branch GNOME 42 so we can add new strings.
Fix a no-data-loss crash during shutdown.

Template-GLib

Fix template evaluation on macOS.
Make boolean expression precedence more predictable.
Cleanup output of templates with regards to newlines.

libpanel

Propagate modified page state to tabs
Some action tweaks to make things more keyboard shortcut friendly.

Builder

Merged support for configuration editing from Georges.
Add lots of keybindings using our new keybinding engine.
Track down and triage that shortcut controllers do not capture/bubble to popovers. Added workarounds for common popovers in Builder.
Teach Builder to load keybindings from plugins again and auto-manage them.
Lots of tweaks to the debugger UI and where widgetry is placed.
Added syntax highlighting for debugger disassembly.
Added menus and toggles for various logging and debugger hooks. You can get a breakpoint on g_warning() or g_critical() by checking a box.
Ability to select a build target as the default build target finally.
More menuing fixes all over the place, particularly with treeviews and sourceviews.
Fix keyboard navigation and activation for the new symbol-tree
Port the find-other-file plugin to the new workspace design which no longer requires using global search.
GTK 4 doesn’t appear to scroll to cells in textview as reliably as I’d like, so I dropped the animation code in Builder and we jump strait to the target before showing popovers.
Various work on per-language settings overrides by project.
Drop the Rust rls plugin as we can pretty much just rely on rust-analyzer now.
Lots of CSS tweaks to make things fit a bit better with upcoming GNOME styling.
Fix broken dialog which prevented SDK updates from occurring with other dependencies.