Another week of work towards porting Builder to GTK 4. Since I can’t add to TWIG from IRC, I’ll try harder to drop some occasional updates here. GtkSourceView Merged fixes for highlighting unicode literals for C Improved parsing of language values in snippet bundles GtkSourceGutter will not correctly mark prelit and selection quarks within GtkSourceGutterLines. … Continue reading Builder GTK 4 Porting, Part II
Now that GNOME 42 was released in March I’ve had spare cycles to focus on porting Builder to GTK 4 in April. I’ve made a lot of progress thus far, but there is still plenty to go. Builder is certainly one of the larger GTK applications out there and so it can be a bit … Continue reading Builder GTK 4 Porting, Part I
Builder needs to deal with many SDK and SDK extensions for applications built upon Flatpak. One thing I never liked about how we did this up until now was that we needed to install Flatpak remotes into the user’s personal Flatpak installation. First, because we needed to add Flathub and gnome-nightly repositories. Secondly, once a … Continue reading Private Flatpak installations in Builder
I still spend most of my day writing C and I doubt that is going to change any time soon. But that doesn’t mean you should have to! Builder got a number of late arriving improvements around Rust support, so now would be a good time to go test them before the 40 release is … Continue reading Rust and GNOME Builder
Our first 3.33 release has landed as we move towards 3.34. There is a lot to do this cycle in case you’re interested in contributing. The best way to get started is to dive into the code. We can help you with that on IRC. Lots of this release is code behind the scenes, so … Continue reading Builder 3.33.1
For years now, Builder has had rich abstractions for containers built right into the core of the IDE. Builder even knows the difference between build and runtime containers which naturally maps with Flatpak SDKs like org.gnome.Sdk vs org.gnome.Platform. With the advent of operating systems focused on immutability, like Fedora Silverblue, developers are going to be … Continue reading Podman Support in Builder
As I mentioned in my overview of the upcoming Builder release, a lot of this development cycle focused on improving machinery the user does not see. In the past four years of development, a number of patterns emerged. When I started this project, I had some ideas of how to keep things organized, but Builder … Continue reading A Better Builder – Part I
We just landed the largest refactor to Builder since it’s inception. Somewhere around 100,000 lines of code where touched which is substantial for a single development cycle. I wrote a few tools to help us do that work, because that’s really the only way to do such a large refactor. Not only does the refactor … Continue reading Builder 3.32 Sightings
One of the things we’ve wanted in Builder for a while is a designer. We’ve had various prototypes in the past to see how things would have worked out, and mostly just punted on the idea because it seemed like Glade served users better than we would be able to directly. Last week, Juan Pablo, … Continue reading Glade Support for Builder
Now that org.gnome.Sdk//3.30 has gone gold, you can get Builder from Flathub. I expect those that have not been using Nightly for the past few months will be pleasantly surprised at the improvements.