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@Mond131313 Just have to wait three months for the stable release 😄

The amazing Georges Stavracas Neto has merged the code that adds a grid view to the default file selection dialog in GTK4: blog.gtk.org/2022/12/15/a-g…

@hendi Sorry, that’s not going to come back, even as an option. We understand that some people find navigate-as-you-type useful, but searching (especially with full text search) is definitely more powerful for more people

@GTKtoolkit Yes, sorry, I mixed up "type ahead" &"search as you type". I'm talking about e.g. gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/is… which had patches and even an AUR package. Yes, SAYT is complex and doesn't work properly. An option to disable it and switch back to the previously fine mode would be nice

@zappor @matthias_clasen Yes, thumbnails are retrieved from the system. GTK will not generate thumbnails, though, as that requires some heavy lifting in the underlying platform, like sandboxing. But if a file already has a thumbnail, it will be shown, just like the list view already does

@matthias_clasen @GTKtoolkit I assume that will also show image thumbnails (which is the main feature request), even though it's not visible in the blog post?

Congratulations to Georges. It is not every day that you get to close an 18 year old feature request: blog.gtk.org/2022/12/15/a-g…

@hendi There is no type ahead, unless you mean “search as you type”. There have been improvements to avoid bugs in the focusing code, so you don’t accidentally start a search while saving a file, but it’s a fairly complex code base—adding the grid view took years and a major API bump

@GTKtoolkit So there's consensus to add a new view and a new button to the file picker, but no (not even hidden) way to disable type ahead search? Wow.

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Georges work will be available in GTK 4.10, the next stable release planned for February/March 2023, alongside GNOME 44

This change completes the work done by Georges, @matthias_clasen, and Corey Berla to port the whole dialog away from the deprecated GtkTreeView widgets to the new GTK4 list views, and in so doing Georges closed an 18 years old bug

We are dropping the Autotools build for GTK3, and have fully switched to @mesonbuild. If you package GTK3 and you are still using Autotools, now is the time to switch. For more information, see the announcement on Discourse: discourse.gnome.org/t/removing-the…

GTK supports MacOS, but the Cocoa integration is not the best. I've been working on a bunch of patches that I hope will make GTK a serious option for who ever wants to build MacOS apps. Here is the result, the Todo List demo app with my patches GTK (1/5):

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Lots of new API landed in the main development branch and will be available in 4.10, next March. Also: deprecations! @matthias_clasen explains what’s happening, on the development blog: blog.gtk.org/2022/10/30/on-…

One year ago yesterday, according to my journal, I stayed up way too late working on a parser for a new little markup language for GTK. So happy birthday blueprint-compiler! 🎂

On the GTK dev blog, @matthias_clasen is going to take you on a journey into the font selection dialog: blog.gtk.org/2022/09/19/ins…

After 207 days, 139 review (pull) requests over 3 repositories. Pidgin 3 (still in development) is officially a @GTKtoolkit 4 application! Congratulations to the team and everyone involved on this huge milestone!

It took almost a year, but the work done by @who_t and I on high-resolution scroll finally landed in Mutter (@gnome), wlroots (Sway) and @GTKtoolkit, both X11 and Wayland 😁

@erikengheim Nice work! It would be nice to update the article to use GTK4 terminology and XML: the packing element does not exist any more, for instance.

Adding CSS preview support in Cambalache... A new UI Maker for @GTKtoolkit and @gnome #GTK #CSS #UIMaker