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Enhanced library
It was mentioned in #505 that the library could use a rework. Here's an initial concept to get the ball rolling.
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
I don't know if one symbolic per demo is reasonable, or is that per category?
It won't scale
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:
- Drop the icons entirely. This would make the library less visually interesting, but it's the most scalable solution.
- 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.
- 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.
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
Maybe we could simply use a view switcher in Workbench for "main" categories.
Patterns | Demos | Tutorials or something like that
It seems like we need to flesh out the Demo Scene and tutorial concepts more to progress on this…
Agree. Until then we can make small QoL additions
@Diego-Ivan already added language tags - a filter would be good next.
I've tried adding a language filter, but it won't work without moving away from PreferencesWindow
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.
The Gtk Flow box has horizontal tiling, is there an Adw counterpart for it? Gtk Grid also allows something similar
is there an Adw counterpart for it?
What's stopping us from just using GtkFlowBox? There's no need for an equivalent in libadwaita :)
I wouldn't recommend GtkFlowBox. GtkGrid or GtkGridView will be probably better.
I wouldn't recommend GtkFlowBox. GtkGrid or GtkGridView will be probably better.
Any specifics as to why?
Yeah sorry, GtkFlowBox is just a glorified GridView that reflows automatically. This automatic reflow can get complicated as imo it's hard to predict.
Using GtkGridView allows you to control the reflow manually by adjusting the number of rows or columns.