Re: Create high-level UI widget library

[Jan Tojnar <jtojnar gmail com>]

Hi Victor!

There is libdazzle [1] in addition to already mentioned libgd and
libegg. Regarding map widget, have you seen libchamplain [2]?


Cheers, Jan

[1]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libdazzle
[2]: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/libchamplain/

On 24 April 2018 at 20:38, Victor Malov <malvikus gmail com> wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> From this [https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/202] talk in GTK bug
> tracker I was advised to move discussion to this mail list.
>
> I think there is need for some high-level UI library, based on GTK, which
> will provide ready-to-use widgets for Gnome Desktop and applications willing
> tightly integrate into Gnome.
>
> The reasons for this are the following:
> 1. Gnome has it's own vision about UX experience and default way to do
> things. To follow these principles will require involving designers. Which
> is almost never happens for most open-source applications. This leads to
> simplified and ugly design with simple controls (where more advanced are
> more suitable). Example: I'm sure Shotwell and other apps would be willing
> to utilize map widget from Gnome Control Center > Details > Date and Time >
> Time Zone) to filter photos by geo-locations.
> 2. It will give ability for more tight apps integration into Gnome.
> 3. Instead of reinventing similar widgets all around different Gnome apps,
> gives unified and reusable set.
> 4. Choice for developers - create their custom widgets or use default ones.
> 5. Creating some widgets requires a fair amount of time, at least for those
> who never came across with that.
> 6. GTK as it's own is quite low-level library for creating UI rich
> applications.
>
> For example, I want to provide map widget to filter photos by geolocation.
> And instead of just use existing I have to dig into all Gnome apps trying to
> find out similar widget (I found them in Gnome Control Center > Details >
> Date and Time > Time Zone, it's a dialog widget showing map), then download
> source code, delve into plain C language (my app is using Python), build
> (which was problem), debug, etc, analyze how this widget works, etc.
>
> It's all very time consuming and makes me reinventing wheel.
>
>
> --
>
> Victor Malov
>
>
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