Re: Builder 3.22 Planning

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

Wow, this is quite a list!


>   https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Builder/Templates
>
> ## Panel Engine
>
> Plugins have become a necessity for Builder for a few reasons. Now that
> developers are starting to extend Builder, we need to come up with a way
> to manage panels that has some degree of flexibility without
> compromising our "code-first" editing story.
>
> Work has started on a new panel engine for GTK+.
>
>   https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Builder/Panels

Some of the widgets required for this are definitively on the wishlist
for merging into GTK+ (tab strip, multi-paned, etc).

> ## Improved Shortcuts
>
> One thing that has gotten significantly more difficult since the
> GtkActionGroup/GtkUIManager days is managing complex shortcut engines.
> Especially when you need pre-defined sets of keybindings. Some
> applications such as GIMP might want a "Photoshop emulation" layer.
>
> Builder has this problem with managing Vim, Emacs, and Gedit keybinding
> modes. We intend to improve this story in 3.22 and bridge the gap
> between GAction, G_SIGNAL_ACTION, and custom keyboard shortcut layers.
>
>  https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Builder/Shortcuts

This is also interesting for GTK+. Improving our infrastructure in
this area would be nice.