Gtk4 Tutorial

1. gladis

   1 2 27 0.0 Rust

   [Deprecated] Easily import Glade-generated UI files into Rust code.

   

   Gtk-rs is still pretty bare bone.

   I tried to do my part by removing boilerplate using macros [1] [2], but it is still complicated to design GTK apps. Even since now, because Glade has been deprecated for GTK4 and no visual editor is available to replace it for now, making developers manually write XML while exploring the sparse documentation. This is a regression for developers' experience.

   I am really trying to like GTK after using Qt a lot in the past, but there is just too much effort. Things should be as simple as VB6/WinForms. With no visual GUI editor, I find myself to just write CLI tools in Rust instead of going the extra mile and creating GUIs.

   [1] https://github.com/MicroJoe/gladis

   [2] https://github.com/MicroJoe/gtk_liststore_item

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3. gtk_liststore_item

   2 2 2 0.0 Rust

   Automatic gtk::ListStore struct derive for Rust.

   

   Gtk-rs is still pretty bare bone.

   I tried to do my part by removing boilerplate using macros [1] [2], but it is still complicated to design GTK apps. Even since now, because Glade has been deprecated for GTK4 and no visual editor is available to replace it for now, making developers manually write XML while exploring the sparse documentation. This is a regression for developers' experience.

   I am really trying to like GTK after using Qt a lot in the past, but there is just too much effort. Things should be as simple as VB6/WinForms. With no visual GUI editor, I find myself to just write CLI tools in Rust instead of going the extra mile and creating GUIs.

   [1] https://github.com/MicroJoe/gladis

   [2] https://github.com/MicroJoe/gtk_liststore_item

4. Gtk4-tutorial

   3 11 632 4.7 C

   GTK 4 tutorial for beginners

   

5. gtk-rs

   4 45 510 8.6 Rust

   Discontinued Rust bindings for GTK 3

   

   I personally disagree with a lot of the changes GTK4 introduces, but I still think it's my favorite way to build quick little native apps on Linux. If you're well-versed in Rust, I really recommend checking out gtk-rs[0], a fantastic little crate with a surprisingly robust implementation. If you're familiar with 'builder' style tools (particularly Glade), your workflow will feel right at home. Plus, memory safety/type safety/good concurrency and all those other awesome Rust freebies you get.

   [0] https://gtk-rs.org/

6. Yue

   5 8 3,517 6.6 C++

   A library for creating native cross-platform GUI apps

   

   I settled for Yue: https://github.com/yue/yue It's been around for several years. The deciding factor for me was that is has well maintained Lua bindings as part of the core project alongside JavaScript (Node.js) and C++.

   I didn't have much luck with libui (crashes, missing features, etc), and various immediate mode alternatives just require too many dependencies and other work that made integration too painful. Plus, Lua bindings for all these were always stale. In fact, Lua binding quality is pretty poor all around including for GTK, Qt, WxWidgets, and FLTK.

7. gtk-rs-core

   6 3 302 9.9 Rust

   Rust bindings for GNOME libraries

   

   "Automatically figuring out which parent objects the class you're subclassing derives from"

   AFAIK this is a language limitation, there is no way in a Rust macro to take a type and get all the traits that are implemented for that type.

   "Helpers for properties and signals"

   There is an open issue for this: https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk-rs-core/issues/27

   "A flat list of methods, instead of the public/imp split"

   You can already do this in your code and use "pub fn" and "fn" like normal.

   "I feel like I had a difficult time figuring out how to share state between widgets. You end up with lots of OnceCell, Rc, and RefCell, and it quickly becomes confusing,"

   I think you are supposed to use bind_property and the gtk::Expression objects to do data binding, though that part is not so convenient to use from C or Rust either.

8. areweguiyet

   7 32 432 7.5 HTML

   A website built for the Rust community

   

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10. Relm4

    8 9 383 9.5 Rust

    Discontinued An idiomatic GUI library inspired by Elm and based on gtk4-rs [Moved to: https://github.com/Relm4/Relm4] (by AaronErhardt)

    

11. mseide-msegui

    9 1 130 7.4 Pascal

    MSEide is a Rapid Application Development IDE for platform independent rich GUI applications in the Pascal language. It comes with its own GUI toolkit called MSEgui. Binaries: https://github.com/mse-org/mseide-msegui/releases

    

    https://github.com/mse-org/mseide-msegui

    Although a separate windowing set than Lazarus, both are enabled by the FreePascal compiler.

    Lazarus does have a GTK backend as an option on Linux.

12. Rocket

    10 162 24,981 8.7 Rust

    A web framework for Rust.

    

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