• Hashimoto: We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application

    From LWN.net@1337:1/100 to All on Fri Aug 15 20:30:09 2025
    Hashimoto: We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application

    Date:
    Fri, 15 Aug 2025 19:26:48 +0000

    Description:
    Mitchell Hashimoto has written a blog
    post about " fully embracing the GObject type system " with a
    rewrite of the GTK version of Ghostty : In addition to memory management [improvements], we can now more
    easily create custom GTK widgets. This let us fully embrace modern GTK
    UI technologies such as Blueprint. For example, here is our terminal
    window Blueprint file. This has already led to more easily introducing
    GUI features like a new GTK titlebar tabs option, an animated border
    on bell, etc. The rewrite is now the default if one builds Ghostty from source,
    and will be included in the 1.2 release that is expected in the next
    few weeks. LWN covered Ghostty in January.

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    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/1033954/


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