Month: July 2024

Ptyxis has arrived in Fedora 40 thanks to my Red Hat colleague Nieves Montero Fernandez. You can sudo dnf install ptyxis to get it.

Discussions are ongoing to make Ptyxis the default terminal for Fedora Workstation (and Silverblue) though it has already been approved by FESCo. One benefit of this is that we can finally remove the downstream patches to gnome-terminal and return it to a more upstream experience.

Additionally, Ptyxis has landed in the developing CentOS Stream (c10s). Project Bluefin also ships Ptyxis as the default terminal.

Some distributions are configuring it with -Dgeneric=terminal which means it will look like a regular ol’ terminal without the Ptyxis name or branding. In fact it uses the previous “prompt” iconography.

If you ship GNOME on your distribution and want help switching to Ptyxis, feel free to reach out.

In the summer of ’23 I quickly put together a minimal library for spellchecking in GTK 4 from what I built for Text Editor and Builder. It has a fun little hybrid piecetable/B+Tree (bplus) which is probably the most complicated part of it.

And by quickly, I mean it was created over the course of about two hours because I got tired of hearing the same reasons why people weren’t porting to GTK 4.

Needless to say, not much thought went into naming things nicely for a library. But I’d like to progress towards actually committing to an ABI for libspelling and I’ve just made the changes I want in that.

Consider this a notice that the next release of libspelling will break ABI. However, it almost certainly won’t affect you. I don’t know of any consumers of it that are doing anything beyond connecting the GtkTextBuffer adapter whose API was untouched.

The changes were mostly cosmetic and will aid future contributors ability to understand the project.

As always, you can read the documentation.