GraniteTemplate

This is a template repository to ease the process of creating GUI with Vala based on GTK and Granite.

Dependencies

To build the application, the following dependencies are required:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y \
    git \
    flatpak-builder \
    meson \
    make

Though make is not needed by itself, the compilation instructions use it to make it easier to build, run and debug.

At the same time, the following requirements are also required and need to be grabbed from Flathub:

flatpak install io.elementary.Sdk/x86_64/6

Note that you may need to add both, flathub and appcenter repos.

Installation

Build and install for the current user (which does not require root permissions) the template. It is recommended to check that it works before doing any change because if not something might be missing:

flatpak-builder build-dir com.felixbrezo.GraniteTemplate.json --force-clean --install --user
flatpak run com.felixbrezo.GraniteTemplate

It is even easier using make because it also deals with translations. Check the Makefile for further details.

make compile_and_run

Now, it is time to personalize the name and objects. There is a shortcut in the bin folder.

python3 bin/set_project_name.py com.felixbrezo.MyApp

This tiny script will search each name referencing the application in the folder and update it to the new name. Now, it is time to rebuild the application using the new name:

make compile_and_run