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Revision as of 11:49, 22 June 2012
Gramps was written with GTK 2 toolkit. This has been replaced upstream with GTK 3, so Gramps should convert to GTK 3.
Contents
Guideline
We try to convert 1 to 1. If there are problems due to deprecated features, or otherwise, add in the code:
# TODO GTK3: write what problem is due to gtk 3 conversion
Before release, all TODO GTK3 in the code must be cleaned up
Documentation
Python GTK3 docs: [1]
Alternative is to look at the base C documentation, and understand from experience how the introspection works. Gnome docs: [2].
As python works with classes, it looks somewhat like the C++ interface: [3]. To investigate the specific override (how to init Gtk classes):
- python overrides: [4]
Furthermore, for the other gi libs:
Installation
Ubuntu 12.04
For people on Ubuntu 12.04, you need:
1. add the gnome_shell repo to have the latest version of glib and friends, see how to add the ppa on: gnome_shell pppa Then upgrade your system via the system manager.
Note 1 : If you use Gnome3, also add the gnome3 ppa!
Note 2: this can make gnome shell unstable if the ppa is too bleeding edge!!
2. install version 3.3.2 of pygobject. No ppa for this, I use the git repo on gnome.org, so my git config:
[remote "origin"] fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* url = http://git.gnome.org/browse/pygobject
So to install it to folder pygobject, do
git clone git://git.gnome.org/pygobject pygobject
Then checkout tag 3.3.2, so
git checkout 3.3.2
Make sure you have the dependencies installed, you will need libglib2.0-dev package (otherwise you will obtain an error like undefined mqcro: AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0. Then compile it
./autogen.sh make sudo make install
Now this installs to /usr/local, so to run the test with that, on ubuntu in your terminal:
PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ python gramps.py
You need this GEPS branch for gramps to work at all:
svn checkout https://gramps.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gramps/branches/geps/gep-029-gtk3 geps-029 cd geps-029
from where gramps can be run.
Problems
- we cannot set strings in struct, see GTK bug [5]
- glade can no longer work with our catalog. We need to upgrade comboboxentry to combobox with has_entry manually, and hope editors keep working...
- expose is no longer present on gtk.widget. Draw must be used. Unclear how, [6].
- Gtk.Clipboard seems to work differently
Related Gramps Bugs
- #5009: Use gobject introspection for GTK 3 dependency