GTK4 Project tracking on GitHub

[jonahgraham]

We currently have a bit more interest and active development on GTK4 from the whole community. 
The Eclipse IDE WG bootstrapped the most recent work with funding Christoph's work in "Linux GTK4 Snippet #1 "Hello World" Working". Now Renesas is funding a few people, including William Riley, Theo Dann-Muirhead, Александър Куртаков and me Jonah Graham.

With an increasing number of people I thought the best way to collaborate would be a project board using GitHub's project feature. I have created such a board. Please have a look at the GTK4 Full Support project.

The goal here is to increase visibility of what we are working on, and reduce duplicate effort where possible. If you are just contributing a PR/Issue on GTK4 you don't need to change your flow, but it would be useful if you could add it to the GTK 4 project:

[iloveeclipse]

Hi all, do we have a list of known issues / working / not working widgets etc, similar what SWT on Skia has?

I'm asking because we are planning to spend some effort on GTK4 port fixes.

[akurtakov]

There isn't such a page AFAIK. My approach is more or less (and it has been mostly me working alone):

• Start Eclipse with GTK 4
• Spot an issue
• Find simpler reproducer (snippets/examples) and work on it
• Constantly keep track of broken things and try to fix them whenever spotted while working on smth else

[iloveeclipse]

OK, let ask differently. Is every SWT widget supposed to be ported already to GTK4 (disregarding possible bugs), or there are still some widgets not working or partly implemented? E.g. does browser work on GTK4?

[akurtakov]

All widgets are ported (diregarding bugs). Browser works on GTK 4 (there is a problem at dispose I believe but haven't found the time to investigate yet). StyledText generally works but experience when using it is terrible.

[laeubi]

@iloveeclipse a good "inspiration" is also this PR:

• https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.swt/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+label%3Agtk4

it executes the SWT tests on GTK4, so one can pick the first failure there make it work and then advance to the next.