GTK3 User Interface

[Bert Timmerman]

pcb requires a GTK3 User Interface sooner or later.

This bug report (feature request) is raised to serve as the start of a topic branch for development.

Related development issues and decisions for the GTK3 UI shall be discussed in this bug report.

[Cesar Strauss (cestrauss)]

Hello Bert,

It seems you made some progress, already:

https://github.com/gEDA-pcb-developers/pcb/tree/LP1952989

Seems some files were renamed when creating the gtk3 HID from the gtk2 one, so a few header file references are wrong, breaking the compile, when I tried. Is there a newer version of this work?

[Bert Timmerman (bert-timmerman)]

Hi Cesar, I got bogged down in the pixbuf/pixmap stuff, and haven't found time to dig into the code for a solution. I have pushed all my commits, no commits or improvements lagging.

[Cesar Strauss (cestrauss)]

No problem! I'll give it a try.

[Cesar Strauss (cestrauss)]

Meanwhile, I did a few trivial fixes to the branch.

https://github.com/gEDA-pcb-developers/pcb/compare/LP1952989...cestrauss:pcb:LP1952989

https://github.com/cestrauss/pcb/tree/LP1952989

[Cesar Strauss (cestrauss)]

I prepared a first set of patches. They simply fix some header file references. They allow more code to be compiled, to find more places where fixes are needed.

https://github.com/gEDA-pcb-developers/pcb/pull/1

https://github.com/cestrauss/pcb/tree/LP1952989-fix-header-file-references

Kindly review, and merge to the branch, if appropriate.

I started with these simpler preparatory tasks, will tackle the pixbuf/pixmap fixes later.

Meanwhile, please treat my fork (https://github.com/cestrauss/pcb/tree/LP1952989) as work in progress, not ready to be merged.

[Bert Timmerman (bert-timmerman)]

Merged pull request on github in topic branch LP1952989.

[Cesar Strauss (cestrauss)]

Thanks for merging the pull request!
And thanks for giving me access to the github repository! I guess this means I can commit directly to the topic branch LP1952989, then. I'll leave it to you to review and merge the branch into master, of course.

[Cesar Strauss (cestrauss)]

Hi Bert. DJ was kind enough to give me commit access to the main PCB repository on git.geda-project.org/pcb.git, so I'll push the LP1952989 branch there as well, if you don't mind.