glimmer-gtk ? about glimmer HOT 2 CLOSED

Thank you for the suggestion.

By the way, Glimmer DSL for SWT already relies on GTK in Linux and I believe Glimmer DSL for LibUI relies on GTK for Linux too.

Still, it seems that GTK has very big fans who want to build Linux-only GUI in CRuby, and given that SWT runs on JRuby and LibUI is very minimal in its features, there would be value in supporting GTK directly with Glimmer.

I added Glimmer DSL for GTK to TODO.md

I will close this issue once I've made a first gem release of it (e.g. 0.0.1) after I've completed work on Glimmer DSL for Tk.

One question I have for you: do you think it is OK to skip GTK2/GTK3 and immediately support the new GTK4 with Glimmer DSL for GTK? It seems GTK2 and GTK3 already have a lot of helpful gems in Ruby (like your gem gtk_paradise if I'm not wrong about you being its author), but GTK4 could benefit most from a Glimmer DSL since it is new and as of today does not have any supporting Ruby gems yet.

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0.0.1 is implemented and released: https://rubygems.org/gems/glimmer-dsl-gtk

Here is the project page:
https://github.com/AndyObtiva/glimmer-dsl-gtk

I focused on supporting what you mentioned:

• Gtk::Window
• Gtk::Button
• Gtk::Entry
• Gtk::Box (:horizontal and :vertical)

But, also due to Glimmer's dynamic nature, it supports all GTK widgets, properties, and signals that conform to the general GTK conventions.

Thank you again for suggesting this and cheers!

p.s. I built it with gtk3 at the moment because the Ruby gtk4 gem currently has issues. Once gtk4 issues are sorted out, I will switch to supporting it instead.

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