Gobject

This is Part 5 of a series taking a GNOME app from an empty directory to GNOME Circle. Part 4 replaced our XML templates with Blueprint and grew the window into the real Gazette layout — a sidebar, a content pane, and three typed widget handles waiting for behaviour. This is the post where they get some. If the GObject machinery in here feels unfamiliar — mod imp, properties, signals — Part 2 is the reference. This is where those patterns stop being theoretical. ...

This is Part 2 of a series taking a GNOME app from an empty directory to GNOME Circle. Part 1 covered the why and the dev environment. The app we’re building Throughout this series, we’ll be building Gazette — an RSS reader. I picked it because it naturally exercises every pattern a non-trivial GNOME app needs: networking, data persistence, list/detail UI, adaptive layouts, settings, and state management. You don’t need to build an RSS reader to follow along — the patterns are universal. ...