Gtk4-tutorial VS Relm4

What's going on? I googled some more and found out from here that I have to use G_APPLICATION_FLAGS_NONE because ubuntu uses an older version of Glib-2.0 and im getting even more confused, if im trying to learn gtk how do i know in advance what i should even learn and what isn't going to work on my machine?

try https://github.com/ToshioCP/Gtk4-tutorial/

The problem is, how do you setup a top-level window "edit" menu that contextually supports these actions for whatever widget is focused. I honestly can't find any example. See this for example: https://github.com/ToshioCP/Gtk4-tutorial/blob/20b4a16175ae3f510151702c8a377b63547b13d8/src/menu3/menu3.c

have you tried this? https://github.com/ToshioCP/Gtk4-tutorial also https://github.com/frang75/nappgui is very interesting and promising.

I've been getting into GTK using ToshioCP's gtk4 tutorial but one thing that bothers me is the different looks on Windows. I've found some themes that could fix it, but I haven't figured out how I could embed my own theme + icons (.css file & subfolders with .SVG icons) into the application.

But after trying to follow along with the official documentation for glib I realized it's all a bit to complicated for me, and I'm really struggling to follow along with it (f*ck you ADHD). I then found a different tutorial that seems to be a bit more handholding and easier to follow along with, but my issue with that is that it doesn't cover glib and gobject, instead it just requires me to copy the code without understanding whenever any gobject related topics appear. I then found a book that fits my needs perfectly, but that is incomplete and as the book itself states it is far from finished, and from what I understand the creator gave up on it in 2019.

There is Relm (https://relm4.org/). Which is in Rust is just GTK (through it's Rust bindings) with a nice reactivity layer on top.

I’d recommend you checking out https://relm4.org if you know a little Rust. Relm4 is currently the easiest and most intuitive way to write GTK

Relm4 might make your migration easier. It has factories which make it easy to create lists (both sync and async) and recently added TypedListView as another useful abstraction over pure gtk-rs. There is a lot of potential in Rust + GTK, you just have to find idiomatic abstractions.

Did you try Relm? It's an implementation is the elm architecture (think react) on top of Gtk. Given your experience with Gtk it might suit you really well, as you can even take only parts of it and continue using bare Gtk for the rest. Give it a try!

What about relm4? Is it generally feature complete? Can one use relm4 for most things, and drop to gtk4 for the oddball task that is not supported?

https://relm4.org/

Using this example: https://github.com/Relm4/Relm4/blob/main/examples/simple.rs

What advantage would this Rust crate have over Relm4? It seems pretty similar to me, save for the property based syntax that Forte has, instead of the set_* ones used on Relm4.

If you like Rust I recommend Relm4, one of the best experiences I’ve had with a framework tbh, be sure to learn gtk-rs first.