d12d ago

can any #gnome #gtk people out there tell me what the current state of https://gitlab.gnome.org/jpu/cambalache is?

more specifically, is this the main GUI designer tool that people are using atm? i understood it was the new generation of #glade since a while now

im happy to take another run at gnome desktop apps but i ideally like to keep the design separate from the code (also for collaborating with designers)

Juan Pablo Ugarte / Cambalache · GitLab

Cambalache is a new RAD tool for Gtk 4 and 3 with a clear MVC design and data model first philosophy.

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@d1 what even.. is it? "RAD" tool?
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@dantescanline yeh, you can design gtk desktop apps in a GUI environment itself instead of painstakingly writing out the entire design in code

you can shoot the shit with other people and move stuff around in experiments without having to recompile a bunch of noise

it spits out a text file and the code loads it and then just references some conventions / names / etc. to pull it all together

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@d1 i see, ive only touched this stuff a little but blueprints seemed pretty nice? though if your code references widgets that are no longer in the blueprint you get errors obviously. i know theres supposed to be a fairly modern GUI builder for blueprints too though i can't find the damn link right now