Subj : Hashimoto: We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application
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From : LWN.net
Date : Fri Aug 15 2025 20:30:09

Hashimoto: We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application

Date:
Fri, 15 Aug 2025 19:26:48 +0000

Description:
Mitchell Hashimoto has written a blog
post about " fully embracing the GObject type system " with a
rewrite of the GTK version of Ghostty : In addition to memory management 
[improvements], we can now more
easily create custom GTK widgets. This let us fully embrace modern GTK
UI technologies such as Blueprint. For example, here is our terminal
window Blueprint file. This has already led to more easily introducing
GUI features like a new GTK titlebar tabs option, an animated border
on bell, etc. The rewrite is now the default if one builds Ghostty from 
source,
and will be included in the 1.2 release that is expected in the next
few weeks. LWN covered Ghostty in January.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1033954/


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