gtk-rs-core

Rust bindings for GNOME libraries

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I cannot find any relevant documentation while searching "gtk template widgets" in my favorite search engines. Do you have a link? Maybe this crate is still needed because of…

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mitchellh·Aug 14, 2025

We also use gir to auto-generate our bindings. But stuff like this is not represented in gir: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/commit/7548dcfe634cd9... It could EASILY be represented in a wrapper (e.g. with a Drop trait) but that implies a well-written wrapper, which is my argument. It's not inherent in the safety Rust gives you. EDIT: I looked it up because I was curious, and a Drop trait is exactly what they do: https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk-rs-core/blob/b7559d3026ce06838... and as far as I can tell this is manually written, not automatically generated from gir. So the safety does rely on the human, not the machine.

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md8z·Oct 21, 2021

"Automatically figuring out which parent objects the class you're subclassing derives from" AFAIK this is a language limitation, there is no way in a Rust macro to take a type and get all the traits that are implemented for that type. It would need some kind of reflection API. Maybe someone could try it with this crate? https://crates.io/crates/reflect "Helpers for properties and signals" There are some open issues for this: https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk-rs-core/issues/27 https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk-rs-core/issues/214 "A flat list of methods, instead of the public/imp split" You can already do this in your code and use "pub fn" and "fn" like normal. "I feel like I had a difficult time figuring out how to share state between widgets. You end up with lots of OnceCell, Rc, and RefCell, and it quickly becomes confusing," I think you are sup

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posed to use bind_property and the gtk::Expression objects to do data binding, though that part is not so convenient to use from C or Rust either.

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deaddabe·Oct 21, 2021Recommendation phrase

I cannot find any relevant documentation while searching "gtk template widgets" in my favorite search engines. Do you have a link? Maybe this crate is still needed because of discoverability issues, if one cannot find an alternative easily. I have not started to discuss with gtk_rs team for the moment. Since this second crate has less "stars", I guess the gladis crate should be figured out first: incorporated, or documented in gtk-rs so that it is made obsolete. EDIT: here is the feature request to merge gtk_liststore_item into gtk-rs: https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk-rs-core/issues/297

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