Workbench

Learn and prototype with GNOME technologies

Workbench goal is to let you experiment with GNOME technologies, no matter if tinkering for the first time or building and testing a GTK user interface.

Among other things, Workbench comes with

• realtime GTK/CSS preview
• library of examples
• 1000+ icons
• JavaScript and Vala support
• XML and Blueprint for describing user interface
• syntax highlighting, undo/redo, autosave, session restore
• code formatter
• console logs

Testimonials

“ It is an essential tool for those who develop applications with GTK ” • “ as someone who is learning GTK, Workbench is definitely a must have! ” • “ created a simple mockup using the amazing Workbench app ” • “ It used to be hard but Workbench helps me learn GTK. ” • “ I recommend it even to those who are new to GTK ” • “ This tool has simplified my life by saving my time drastically. ” • “ Gone too wild playing with Workbench ”

Tips and tricks

// prettier-ignore
matrix(
  1, 0, 0,
  0, 1, 0,
  0, 0, 1
);

/* prettier-ignore */
.my    ugly rule
{

}

Translation

If you'd like to help translating Workbench into your language, please head over to Weblate.

Thank you for your help!

Development

1. Install GNOME Builder
2. Open Builder and select "Clone Repository..."
3. Clone https://github.com/sonnyp/Workbench.git (or your fork)
4. Press the Run ▶ button

If you used an other method, don't forget to fetch the submodules.

cd Workbench
git submodule update

Feel free to come by #workbench:matrix.org.

Packaging

Please do not attempt to package Workbench any other way than as a Flatpak application.

It is unsupported and may put users at risk.

Credits

Workbench would not be possible without

GTK, GLib, Flatpak, GtkSourceView, libadwaita, VTE, GJS, Blueprint, icon-development-kit, Vala

and the GNOME community 🖤

Copyright

© 2022 Sonny Piers and contributors

License

GPLv3. Please see COPYING file.

Except for everything under src/Library/demos which is in the public domain under the terms of CC0 1.0.

Maintainers

Release

$V = 45

# Pull translatons
git merge --squash l10n
git commit -m 'Update translations'

# Update version
# bump version in meson.build
git add meson.build

git commit -m '$V'
git tag '$V'
git push
git push origin $V

Update icons

cd icon-development-kit-www
git pull
cd ..
cp -r icon-development-kit-www/img/symbolic/**/*.svg data/icons/hicolor/scalable/actions/
cat icon-development-kit-www/_data/icons.yaml | python -c 'import sys, yaml, json; print(json.dumps(yaml.safe_load(sys.stdin.read())))' > src/icon-development-kit.json