Another year of GNOME development is coming to a close so it’s time to look back as we forge into 2018. This is going to be more verbose than I generally write. I hope you’ll have a warm drink and take the time to read through because I think this is important. Twenty years of … Continue reading Grow your skills with GNOME
Every release of both GNOME and Builder, we try to lower the barrier a bit more for new contributions. Bastian mentioned to me at GUADEC that we could make things even simpler from the Builder side of things. After a few mockups, I finally found some time to start implementing it. With the upcoming Nightly … Continue reading Simplifying contributions
You can do some pretty evil things with GtkTreeView if you put your mind to it. One of the most common questions over the years has been how to reflow (wrap) text. The short answer is you can’t. The answer for those willing to hack around it is something like: So the real question is … Continue reading Reflowing text in GtkTreeView
There really is a lot of code in libdazzle already. So occasionally it makes sense to spotlight some things you might be interested in using. Action Muxing Today, while working on various Builder redesigns, I got frustrated with a common downfall of GAction as used in Gtk applications. Say you have a UI split up … Continue reading Dazzle spotlight – Multi Paned and Action Muxing
The other day, Sri asked me for a quick Gtk example for a talk. Basically he just needed a window with a header bar. So I put together this repo on github with some examples in a variety of languages. After a few contributions from our community, we have even more examples. I think it … Continue reading Hello world in a handful of languages
Now that gtk-doc is getting updates and integration with Meson, I decided to give it another shot. So here is some work-in-progress documentation for libdazzle, template-glib, and jsonrpc-glib. There is plenty of work to do, but this makes it easier for others to come along and help me do the hard part, the documentation. I’m … Continue reading Library Documentation
I spend a lot of time making flashy widgets for Gtk. Mostly because I find it entertaining. You can now benefit from the culmination of many years of my trial and error in a new library I’ve created, libdazzle. The code is currently on github but I suspect I’ll move it to git.gnome.org relatively soon. … Continue reading Razzle Dazzle
My approach to development can often differ from my peers. I prefer to spend the early phase of a cycle doing lots of prototypes of various features we plan to implement. That allows me to have the confidence necessary to know early in the cycle what I can finish and where to ask for help. … Continue reading 3.26 Developments
Today is day 3 of the GNOME+Rust hackfest in Mexico City at the beautiful new Red Hat office. We’ve been working on all sorts of stuff since we were graced with the presence of a few Rust hackers from Mozilla Research. In particular, Niko and Federico have been working on a GObject plugin for Rust … Continue reading Rust’ic GNOME, Day 3
Now that 3.24 is almost here, I want to take a little downtime and write some information about pieces of the design underneath Builder. Today, let’s lift the hood and take a look at Runtimes. In Builder, an IdeRuntime is an abstraction around an environment to run programs. That could be build tooling, SDK management, … Continue reading Under the hood: Runtimes