glib
adjective
glibber; glibbest
1 a: showing little forethought or preparation : offhand
glib answers
b: marked by ease and informality : nonchalant
c: lacking depth and substance : superficial
glib solutions to knotty problems
2: marked by ease and fluency in speaking or writing often to the point of being insincere or deceitful
a glib politician
3 archaic: smooth, slippery

Well that's something new. Must be a circular dependency between glib-2.82.4,2 and gobject-introspection@bootstrap, but I'm not entirely sure which port to file a bug against; I suspect gobject-introspection.

okay, i think i don't entirely understand when i should claim a reference using g_object_ref and when i shouldn't #GLib #GObject

question 1: should a function that returns a pointer to an object g_object_ref it for the caller's sake?

I have not blogged or talked about the follow-up work to my "GType Next" blog post that I've been doing in my spare time, mainly because it is happening *in my spare time*, and I don't want to give false impressions to people; the other reason is that the time consuming bit is not writing a bunch of code, but it's planning ahead, because the goal is to avoid breaking stuff at all costs…

Ciekawostka: jeżeli różne programy sypią się z błędami typu:

(…): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: 20:46:27.286: Settings schema '…' does not contain a key named '…'

a macie pewność, że schematy skompilowane, i definitywnie zawierają taki klucz, to może okazać się, że z jakiegoś powodu w waszym katalogu domowym siedzi dodatkowy plik ze skompilowanymi schematami, i jest używany zamiast systemowego.

Czyli:

rm ~/.local/share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled

Fun fact: if random applications are crashing with errors like:

(…): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: 20:46:27.286: Settings schema '…' does not contain a key named '…'

and you've already verified that you've compiled the schemas, and that the schema contains the listed key, then it may mean that for some reason you have another compiled schema file in your home directory, and it's taking precedence.

In other words:

rm ~/.local/share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled

Play FlappyBird, but written in #vala !
https://gitlab.com/nda-cunh/flappyvala
Using only #SFML and #glib as dependencies.
The code is object oriented and a very good example for a non-gtk Vala app. Check it out!

Support for async/sync/finish introspection annotations has landed in GLib for the next unstable release, https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/3746

#GLib #MaintainerLife #gobject-introspection #GNOME

any #GLib coders out there? i would like to know what's the best way to keep track of async operations, like mounting/unmounting drives, copying files, etc.

i'm using #vala, but i'm pretty sure any C advice would also apply with slight changes

Important security update for GLib and D-Bus, thanks to @pwithnall

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/security-fixes-for-signal-handling-in-gdbus-in-glib/20882

If you are a downstream distributor of GLib, GTK, or GNOME-related projects, remember to follow the distributor tag on Discourse.

When I was dealing with gtk-rs, I thought #gVariant was a mess in #rust .

Now I know it's not just Rust. It's also a pain in C. Sigh.

Does anyone happen to know why GUnixInputStream doesn't implement GSeekable? #glib

Greetings Programs!! Doing a hopefully quick but late night stream on Xeme our new #XMPP library for @pidgin Come on by! #OpenSource #OpenSourceLive #C #GLib #Gtk https://twitch.tv/rw_grim/ https://youtube.com/@rw_grim/

Trying to update the #matrix #GLib SDK to use libsoup3 instead of libsoup2 for its HTTP calls, and wondering whether it's worth it keeping support for both versions.

#Ifdef hell is always "fun" to maintain. :)

Sent a PR to #LZ4 for a new API which I would like to use in my new GConverter implementation for #GLib

Embloggeration happened: https://www.bassi.io/articles/2023/10/25/introspections-edge/

In which I talk about the current plans for gobject-introspection and GLib.

If you work on language bindings, and/or packaging glib, you should reach out to the GLib maintainers.