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| author | Aylur <[email protected]> | 2024-12-25 02:38:27 +0100 |
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| committer | GitHub <[email protected]> | 2024-12-25 02:38:27 +0100 |
| commit | 37f0d24178a1516eb45eb639640e07c5dc3b8e81 (patch) | |
| tree | 28ff8d1030be1919c00152e99b4ab9c229b0f01b /docs/guide/getting-started | |
| parent | 553b2186db47fb34602d4e949c1e40a018238d7a (diff) | |
| parent | 0f2fefd2053203e1bfe4d66eb4e37dea07369890 (diff) | |
Merge pull request #196 from Aylur/feat/jsx-gtk4
Add jsx support for gtk4
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/guide/getting-started/introduction.md | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/guide/getting-started/introduction.md b/docs/guide/getting-started/introduction.md index 782c069..43a7bd8 100644 --- a/docs/guide/getting-started/introduction.md +++ b/docs/guide/getting-started/introduction.md @@ -2,13 +2,15 @@ ## What is Astal? -Astal (_meaning "desk"_) is a suite of libraries in Vala and C. +Astal (_meaning "desk"_) is a suite of libraries written in Vala and C. The core library [astal3](https://aylur.github.io/libastal/astal3) and -[astal4](https://aylur.github.io/libastal/astal4) (not yet available) -has some Gtk widgets that come packaged, +[astal4](https://aylur.github.io/libastal/astal4) +have some Gtk widgets that come packaged, the most important one being the [Window](https://aylur.github.io/libastal/astal3/class.Window.html) which is the main toplevel component using [gtk-layer-shell](https://github.com/wmww/gtk-layer-shell). This is what allows us to use Gtk as shell components on Wayland. -The other part of the core library [astal-io](https://aylur.github.io/libastal/astal-io) +The other component is [Application](https://aylur.github.io/libastal/astal3/class.Application.html) +which provides a way to send messages from the cli to running Astal instances. +The other part of the core library is [astal-io](https://aylur.github.io/libastal/astal-io) which contains some utility GLib shortcut for running external processes, reading, writing and monitoring files, timeout and interval functions. @@ -23,4 +25,4 @@ or an applauncher, but gave up because writing a workspace widget, implementing the notification daemon or handling a search filter was too much of a hassle? Astal libraries have you [covered](../libraries/references#astal-libraries), you don't have to worry about these, -you just define the layout, style it with CSS and that's it. +you just define the layout, style with CSS hook up the state from libraries you want and that's it. |