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Sbte edited this page Nov 27, 2011 · 7 revisions

Emesene GTK+3 porting guide

This page contains information about the in progress porting.

Important Note: gtk+2 and gtk+3: These two versions can't be used at the same time by a process, if that happens you got a crash.

Docs:

Python Gtk3 tutorial: http://python-gtk-3-tutorial.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html

GTk3 reference: http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.0/ Version 3.2: http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.2/

Old but still useful javascript introspection docs: http://www.roojs.com/seed/gir-1.2-gtk-3.0/gjs/index.html

Automatic converting script (helps but quite incomplete): http://git.gnome.org/browse/pygobject/plain/pygi-convert.sh

Gtk3 Theme Changes (CSS themes):

GEdit Plugins (working code examples):

TASKS:

Porting Tasks:

Port all gtk code from gtkui and gui.common
Port Pango and cairo code to new dinamic bindings (hardest part)
Port Papyon to introspection. Can't mix static and dinamic bindings
Port indicators to gtk3
Port some e3.common bits to GObject dinamic bindings
Port plugins to Gtk3
Port the UnityLauncher to the UnityLauncherAPI (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/LauncherAPI)

Important things to be done in after the porting:

Replace HBox And VBox uses by Box.
Try to use new Grid control intead of complex Box nestings.
Replace GtkTable with GtkGrid
Add placeholder text to search textbox
replace set_alignment with set_halign/set_valign
Investigate Theme Changes (Custom css themes)