The vfx company I work for would like to port our windows vfx tools to Linux, and as part of the team, we were genuinely excited about the prospect, especially with GNOME being the default Linux desktop. However, we’ve encountered some major roadblocks that are seriously testing our patience. One of the challenges we’ve faced is aligning the text inside a label to the top-left, which has turned into an exasperating puzzle.
Additionally, we’re struggling with implementing CSS styling or non-CSS styling for our applications. Examples of how to achieve these stylings would be greatly appreciated.
Despite these hurdles, we’re not giving up just yet. We’re determined to overcome these challenges. If any fellow developers out there have faced similar issues or have insights into solving these problems, we could really use some advice.
This seems like a good time to promote Workbench, which is sort of half-way between an IDE and a RAD tool.
It’s not intended for writing applications, but it’s very easy to throw together some widgets, a bit of JavaScript or Vala code, and play around with CSS. It includes a growing number of platform examples, including the basics like alignment, labels, drag-n-drop and so on.