The libdazzle library is a companion library to GObject and Gtk+.
** This project is basically end-of-life **
It was never really meant to be used outside of Builder and Sysprof projects as it was a convenient spot to share code.
Ideally, GTK 4 has what you need.
If you find yourself using things like search, action helpers, etc you should just copy that code into your project. If you need paneling, https://gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/libpanel has some of that, albeit has not made an official release. If you need shortcuts, GTK 4 has better solutions built in. If you need suggestion/searching, you can just us popovers in GTK 4.
libdazzle, as you might imagine, is written in C. We find C the most convenient language when it comes down to interoperability with other language runtimes. libdazzle supports GObject Introspection and vapi meaning you can use libdazzle from a wide variety of languages including:
- Python 2.7 or 3.x
- JavaScript (using Gjs/Spidermonkey)
- Lua/Luajit
- Perl
- Rust
- Vala
and many others that implement binding support for GObject Introspection.
libdazzle is licensed under the GPLv3+. We DO NOT require copyright attribution to contribute to libdazzle.
We use the meson (and thereby Ninja) build system for libdazzle. The quickest way to get going is to do the following:
meson . build
cd build
ninja
ninja installIf you need control over installation paths, see meson --help.
Here is a fairly common way to configure libdazzle.
meson --prefix=/opt/gnome --libdir=/opt/gnome/lib . buildlibdazzle has a wide range of components from utilities for GIO, widgets for Gtk, an animation framework, state machines, paneling and high-performance counters.
Until we have an overrview here, check out the src/ directory.