Short update this week given last Monday was Memorial Day in the US. I had a lovely time relaxing in the yard and running errands with my wife Tenzing. We’ve been building such a beautiful home together that it’s nice to just sit back and enjoy it from time to time.
GTK
- Merged some work on debug features for testing RTL vs LTR from Builder. There is a new
GTK_DEBUG=invert-text-dirto allow rudimentary testing with alternate text directions.
Builder
- Landed a new clone design using libadwaita.
- Fixed rendering of symbolic icons in the gutter for diagnostics, etc
- Fixed error underlines for spellcheck when dealing with languages where the glyph baseline may change
- Added a new
IdeVcsCloneRequestwhich can do most of the clone work so the UI bits can be very minimal. - Added interfaces to allow for retrieving a list of branches on a remote before you’ve cloned it. Useful to help selecting an initial branch, but do to how libgit2 works, we have to create a temporary directory to make it work (and then unlink it). Handy nonetheless.
- Make
gnome-builder --clonework again. - Make cloning newcomer applications automatically work again.
- Made a lot of our popover’s use menu styling, despite being backed by
GListModelandGtkListView. - Even more menuing cleanups. Amazing how each pass of this really tends to clarify things from a user perspective.
- Made all of the editor menu buttons in the statusbar functional now.
- New gsetting and preference toggle to set default license for new projects.
- A new
IdeWebkitPagepage implementation which is a very rudimentary web-browser. This will end up being re-used by thehtml-preview,markdown-preview, andsphinxplugins. - Removed the glade plugin
- Fixed presentation of clang completion items.
I’m pretty satisfied with the port of the cloning workflow, but it really needs to have a PTY plumbed through to the peer process so we can get better/more complete information. We’ll see if there is time before 43 though given how much else there is to get done.
All of this effort is helping me get a more complete vision of what I’d like to see out of a GTK 5. Particularly as we start attacking things from a designer tooling standpoint.
