Category Archives: GtkSourceView

GtkSourceView fundraising!

Posted on September 9, 2017 by swilmet

I’m launching a fundraising for GtkSourceView! If you don’t know what GtkSourceView is, it’s a widely used library for text editors and IDEs (or text editing in general). For example on Debian, more than 50 applications rely on GtkSourceView, including … Continue reading →

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GObject design pattern: attached class extension

Posted on August 9, 2017 by swilmet

I wanted to share one recurrent API design that I’ve implemented several times and that I’ve found useful. I’ve coined it “attached class extension”. It is not a complete description like the design patterns documented in the Gang of Four … Continue reading →

Posted in Amtk, gspell, GtkSourceView, Library development, Programming, Tepl | 3 Comments

Gtef 2.0 – GTK+ Text Editor Framework

Posted on March 24, 2017 by swilmet

Gtef is now hosted on gnome.org, and the 2.0 version has been released alongside GNOME 3.24. So it’s a good time for a new blog post on this new library. The main goal of Gtef is to ease the development of … Continue reading →

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Re: Consider the maintainer

Posted on January 29, 2017 by swilmet

I’ve read this LWN article: Consider the maintainer. It was a great read, and I want to share my thoughts, from my experience on being a maintainer (or helping the maintenance) of several GNOME modules. GNOME has a lot of … Continue reading →

Posted in GtkSourceView, LaTeXila, Library development, Me Myself and I, Programming, Thoughts | 5 Comments

Smooth transition to new major versions of a set of libraries

Posted on December 10, 2016 by swilmet

With GTK+ 4 in development, it is a good time to reflect about some best-practices to handle API breaks in a library, and providing a smooth transition for the developers who will want to port their code. But this is … Continue reading →

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Announcing Gtef, an incubator for GtkSourceView

Posted on September 10, 2016 by swilmet

Gtef – the acronym for “GNOME Text Editor Framework” – is a new library that eases the development of GtkSourceView-based text editors and IDEs. It can serve as an incubator for some GtkSourceView features. See the Gtef repo on GitHub … Continue reading →

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Using the GtkSourceView API to write scripts that manipulate text

Posted on August 17, 2016 by swilmet

In the gnome-c-utils repository, I wrote some scripts that use the GtkSourceView library. When a script needs to read some text, search something in it, and possibly edit the content, then having a GtkTextBuffer is really convenient. GtkTextBuffer is good … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on the Linux Mint X-Apps forks

Posted on June 18, 2016 by swilmet

You may be aware that Linux Mint has forked several GNOME applications, either directly from GNOME (Totem -> Xplayer, Evince -> Xreader, Eye of GNOME -> Xviewer), or indirectly via MATE (gedit -> pluma -> XEd). GNOME is like the … Continue reading →

Posted in gedit, gspell, GtkSourceView, Library development, Programming, Thoughts | 12 Comments

Libtool convenience library to unit test private functions

Posted on April 17, 2016 by swilmet

Only the public API of a library is exported, so when a program is dynamically linked to the DSO (Dynamic Shared Object), it can only use the public functions. So how do you unit test the private classes of your … Continue reading →

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Announcing gCSVedit, a simple text editor to edit CSV files

Posted on November 3, 2015 by swilmet

As part of my job at the Université Catholique de Louvain, one of my projects is to develop gCSVedit, a small and simple text editor to edit CSV/TSV files. gCSVedit is now a free/libre software (GPLv3+ license) and is hosted … Continue reading →

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