Enhanced library

[bragefuglseth]

It was mentioned in #505 that the library could use a rework. Here's an initial concept to get the ball rolling.

[sonnyp]

This is great. We talked about using tags for Langs/categoies before.

The Category drop-down is a great way to separare by concerns too , "tutorials", "patterns" etc

[sonnyp]

I don't know if one symbolic per demo is reasonable, or is that per category?

It won't scale

[bragefuglseth]

The icon library has icons for a lot of cases, but Workbench has a lot of demos to cover as well, so you have a point. I see three alternatives:

1. Drop the icons entirely. This would make the library less visually interesting, but it's the most scalable solution.
2. Only use icons for some demos, and find a nice way to display demos without them as well. I'm not sure how easy this would be design-wise.
3. De-emphasize the icon, choose one for each category and use that for each demo in the category. This might get repetitive, but I can see it working nicely.

[sonnyp]

I would drop the icons for now. I'm not 100% sure where to take Workbench next.

We might reduce the number of Library entries to only "copy and paste" examples (Patterns) and move the rest somewhere else (either a new app or a separate Workbench feature)

• "Demo Scene" similar to chrome experiments but for GNOME stuff
• GNOME tutorials powered by Markdown and interactive code examples https://floss.social/@sonny/109013295762205649

[sonnyp]

Maybe we could simply use a view switcher in Workbench for "main" categories.

Patterns | Demos | Tutorials or something like that

[sonnyp]

In which case patterns entries can have a nice icon

[bragefuglseth]

It seems like we need to flesh out the Demo Scene and tutorial concepts more to progress on this…

[sonnyp]

Agree. Until then we can make small QoL additions

@Diego-Ivan already added language tags - a filter would be good next.

[sonnyp]

I've tried adding a language filter, but it won't work without moving away from PreferencesWindow

[vixalien]

Maybe we could simply use a view switcher in Workbench for "main" categories.

Would that scale with many categories? Or are there a limited number of categories.

[BharatAtbrat]

The Gtk Flow box has horizontal tiling, is there an Adw counterpart for it? Gtk Grid also allows something similar

[bragefuglseth]

is there an Adw counterpart for it?

What's stopping us from just using GtkFlowBox? There's no need for an equivalent in libadwaita :)