Workbench

A sandbox to learn and prototype with GNOME technologies

Workbench goal is to let you experiment with GNOME technologies, no matter if tinkering for the first time or building and testing a custom GTK widget.

Among other things, Workbench comes with

• realtime GTK/CSS preview
• JavaScript for quick and easy scripting
• Syntax highlighting, undo/redo, autosave
• code fomatter
• terminal

Tips and tricks

Disable code formatting

Workbench uses the prettier code formatter. If you need to exclude some code you can use special comments.

JavaScript

// prettier-ignore
matrix(
  1, 0, 0,
  0, 1, 0,
  0, 0, 1
);

XML

<foo>
  <!-- prettier-ignore-start -->
    <this-content-will-not-be-formatted     />
  <!-- prettier-ignore-end -->
</foo>

CSS

/* prettier-ignore */
.my    ugly rule
{

}

Development

1. Install GNOME Builder
2. Open Builder and select "Clone Repository..."
3. Clone https://github.com/sonnyp/Workbench.git
4. Press the Run ▶ button

Packaging

Please do not attempt to package Workbench any other way than as a Flatpak application.

It is unsupported and may put users at risk.

Contributing

If you can help, here is a list of issues that would make Workbench better

• GtkSourceView - Make URIs clickable

Copyright

© 2022 Sonny Piers

License

GPLv3. Please see COPYING file.