Building GTK4 Applications Like Websites

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Post by dradtke » Tue, May 24, 2022, 4:10 PM UTC

Building GTK4 Applications Like Websites
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Re: Building GTK4 Applications Like Websites

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, May 24, 2022, 7:20 PM UTC

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Post by fancyfredbot » Tue, May 24, 2022, 9:03 PM UTC

I get what the author is trying to do here and it's clever, but for me it kind of underlines that the developer experience would be much nicer if you build a 'native' gtk4 application. Web apps are hard work!

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Post by hactually » Tue, May 24, 2022, 9:23 PM UTC

I actually thought Glade was deprecated? I'm surprised to see it mentioned... Or maybe I'm wrong or maybe the author didn't know!

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Post by colejohnson66 » Tue, May 24, 2022, 9:45 PM UTC

hactually wrote: post #4

I actually thought Glade was deprecated? I'm surprised to see it mentioned... Or maybe I'm wrong or maybe the author didn't know!

It hasn’t been updated since November 2020, and the mailing lists on the homepage link to nonexistent GNOME mailing lists. It’s still useful, but I’m inclined to say it’s dead.

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Post by stefanos82 » Tue, May 24, 2022, 11:05 PM UTC

hactually wrote: post #4

I actually thought Glade was deprecated? I'm surprised to see it mentioned... Or maybe I'm wrong or maybe the author didn't know!

Seems like it's not deprecated, but facing some technical reasons with GTK4.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27783545

Re: Building GTK4 Applications Like Websites

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Post by dradtke » Wed, May 25, 2022, 12:41 AM UTC

hactually wrote: post #4

I actually thought Glade was deprecated? I'm surprised to see it mentioned... Or maybe I'm wrong or maybe the author didn't know!

Ah, yeah I didn't realize that Glade didn't work with GTK4. I'll update the post soon to clarify that, thanks for catching it!

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Post by TingPing » Wed, May 25, 2022, 2:22 AM UTC

hactually wrote: post #4

I actually thought Glade was deprecated? I'm surprised to see it mentioned... Or maybe I'm wrong or maybe the author didn't know!

Glade is replaced by Cambalanche https://blogs.gnome.org/xjuan/category/programming/cambalach...

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Post by jms55 » Wed, May 25, 2022, 2:25 AM UTC

hactually wrote: post #4

I actually thought Glade was deprecated? I'm surprised to see it mentioned... Or maybe I'm wrong or maybe the author didn't know!

Glade itself is deprecated, but the UI XML file format it works with is not. Cambalache and Drafting are two WIP projects to replace Glade.

Until then, you can either avoid UI files, write them by hand, or my favorite option: use blueprints[1], a file format that compiles to UI files. For instance, this file[2] describes a form with a folding advanced section, complete with functions to call when buttons are pressed, and CSS class names to apply to widgets.

[1]: https://jwestman.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/blueprint-compiler/ [2]: https://github.com/JMS55/whatthefn/blob/master/res/blp/profi...

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Post by zxspectrum1982 » Wed, May 25, 2022, 2:43 PM UTC

Congratulations Mr Author, you have reinvented WPF (XAML).