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Oh yes, that's it. Thanks for posting. I think its so beautiful. It is one of those things that have pure artisan value. Of craftsmanship. Whether it is used wi

by wg0 3y ago

Oh yes, that's it. Thanks for posting. I think its so beautiful. It is one of those things that have pure artisan value. Of craftsmanship. Whether it is used widely or not, I wish this backend to be there. Back then, I did run Open Office in Firefox and it amazed me.

mananaysiempre 3y ago
If nothing’s changed, the Gtk 4 design tool Cambalache[1] by the former maintainer of the now-defunct Glade project uses[2] Broadway to render its design view, because it was there and an embedded Wayland compositor widget wasn’t. Broadway is awesome, but this just makes me sad. [1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/jpu/cambalache https://gitlab.gnome.org/jpu/cambalache [2] https://blogs.gnome.org/xjuan/2021/05/18/merengue-cambalaches-workspace/ https://blogs.gnome.org/xjuan/2021/05/18/merengue-cambalache...
- aktuel 3y ago
  I dont't understand. What exactly makes you sad?
  - mananaysiempre 3y ago
    That the easiest way for a UI design tool using a native toolkit and targeting that same toolkit to display a preview of the UI being edited turned out to be embedding the 800-pound gorilla called a webview.
    - tadfisher 3y ago
      The only reason the tool does that is to support multiple versions of GTK. But the alternative you suggest, embedding a Wayland compositor in a widget, doesn't exactly seem to be the lightest-weight of options.
      - mananaysiempre 3y ago
        Not my suggestion, for what it’s worth, but the author’s own (in ref. 2 above). And yes, it’s not precisely fantastic, but on the other hand “embedded Wayland compositor” is for the most part a fancy way to say “dumb RPC passthrough and a single blit”. (That doesn’t mean that it wouldn’t take a whole lot of work to make, just that the eventual result would not be huge.)