Branching We’re currently finishing up the cycle towards GNOME 3.36, which means it’s almost time to start branching and thinking about what we want to land early in the 3.37 development cycle. My goal is to branch gtksourceview-4-6 which will be our long-term stable branch for gtksourceview-4.x (similar to how the gnome-3-24 branch is our … Continue reading GtkSourceView branching
I spent some time this cycle porting GtkSourceView to GTK 4. It was a good opportunity to help me catch up on how GTK 4’s internals have changed into something modern. It gave me a chance to fix a few pot-holes along the way too. One of the pot-holes was one I left in GtkTextView … Continue reading GtkSourceView on GTK 4
Earlier this month, Matthias and I teamed up to push through some of our profiling tooling for GTK and GNOME. We took the occasional work I had done on Sysprof over the past few years and integrated that into the GTK-4.x tree. Sysprof uses a binary log file to store information about execution in a … Continue reading Sysprof Developments
As I mentioned in my talk at Scale 17x, if you aren’t using containers for building your application yet, it’s likely you will in the not-so-distant future. Moving towards an immutable base OS is a very likely future because the security advantages are so compelling. With that, comes a need for a mutable playground, and … Continue reading Improving the Container Workflow
Sometimes completion windows get in the way of reading the surrounding code. With Builder Nightly, you can press and release Left Control to toggle translucency of the completion window.
One thing Builder has done for a long time is make terminals work seamlessly even if distributed using container technologies. Because pseudo-terminals are steeped in esoteric UNIX history, it can be non-obvious how to make this work. I’m in a place to help you not have to deal with that pain because I’ve already gone … Continue reading Flatpaking Terminals
One of the things I talked about in my talk at Scale 17x is that there are a number of platform features coming that are enevitable. One of those is application sandboxing. But not every component within an application is created equal or deserves equal access to user data and system configuration. Building the next … Continue reading Designing for Sandboxes
A reminder that I’ll be speaking at Scale 17x in Pasadena on Sunday, March 10th about all the cool stuff we’ve been doing in Builder and how that plays into the role of modernizing our development stack. Also, Sri is speaking. Matthias too.
Years ago, when starting the Builder project, I added a real-time CPU graph so that it was easy to detect slow-downs quickly while hacking on the product. If I ever saw a main-loop stall, it would be immediately obvious. Over the years I added more advanced features like a Sysprof-based profiler. That duplicated the feature … Continue reading Removing my favorite feature
One dead give-away of a GNOME/Gtk programmer is how they format their headers. For the better part of two decades, many of us have been trying to keep things aligned. Whether this is cargo-culted or of real benefit depends on the reader. Generally, I find them easier to filter through. Unfortunately, none of indent, clang-format, … Continue reading Keeping those headers aligned