GNOME and GTK: Niepce, Mutter, and PyGObject

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 03, 2022

• Niepce November 2022 updates - Hubert Figuière

  Before implementing drag and drop between list widgets (the grid view or thumbnail strip and the workspace), we'd better stop using the now deprecated widgets. This mean it is time to remove GtkIconView and GktTreeView as I would hate having to implement drag and drop twice.

  Now, the grid view / thumbnail strip no longer uses GtkIconView. There are still a few visual adjustments to perform, notably how to get square cells, or rethink the layout. This also got rid of the last leftovers from cbindgen.

  The workspace (the treeview that list the content of the catalog) is a bit more tricky as the API for tree view with GtkListView has a few limitations and complexities, but it's mostly done as to have the functionality. It's the last big patch in November.

• Automated testing of GNOME Shell - GNOME Shell - Mutter

  Automated testing is important to ensure software continues to behave as it is intended and it’s part of more or less all modern software projects, including GNOME Shell and many of the dependencies it builds upon. However, as with most testing, we can always do better to get more complete testing. In this post, we’ll dive into how we recently improved testing in GNOME Shell, and what this unlocks in terms of future testability.

• halting problem : On�PyGObject

  PyGObject is currently undermaintained, even after the heroic efforts of Christoph Reiter to keep the fires burning through the long night. The Python community needs more people to work on the bindings, if we want Python to be a first class citizen of the ecosystem.

  There’s a lot to do, and not nearly enough people left to do it.