Someone asked for Nim bindings two years ago, so I added them. But that time I only could find out that libadwaita is some form of libhandy for GTK4. Gentoo Linux does not ship adwaita at all, so it seems to be not an important lib?
The problem is, that libadwaita seems to duplicate many data types like Window or Application. Many more I fear, maybe most of the important GTK types like Widget, Button and all that? For Nim we generally use no module name prefix, we write for types just Button instead of gtk.Button. But when using libadwaity we have name conflicts, and have to specify adw.Window vs. gtk.Window. Unfortunately the gintro Nim bindings does not support module name prefixes well currently, and fixing that may be a larger amount of work.
So the question: Has libadwaita some relevance, or can we just ignore it and the single user that had tried it?
libadwaita is what most GNOME apps are gonna be using when they port to GTK4. It’s not shipped because it’s not released yet.
Name conflicts are nothing new, for example:
GApplication / GtkApplication
GSettings / GtkSettings
GListStore / GtkListStore
In GTK3:
GMenu / GtkMenu
GdkWindow / GtkWindow
So having an extra AdwApplication on top of GtkApplication doesn’t change much - it’s not different from how GtkApplication extends GApplication, or e.g. libdazzle extends GtkApplication into DzlApplication.