User interface designer for Gtk+ and GNOME
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Glade is not being actively developed or maintained anymore. If you are interested in becoming a maintainer please contact us on gitlab.
Glade is a RAD tool to enable quick and easy development of user interfaces for the GTK+ 3 toolkit and the GNOME desktop environment.
The user interfaces designed in Glade are saved as XML and these can be loaded by applications dynamically as needed by using GtkBuilder or used directly to define a new GtkWidget derived object class using Gtk+ new template feature.
By using GtkBuilder, Glade XML files can be used in numerous programming languages including C, C++, C#, Vala, Java, Perl, Python, and others.
This version of Glade targets GTK 3 If you need to work with GTK 2, you can still use Glade 3.8 (more information)
Glade is distributed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPL) and GNU Library General Public License, version 2 (LGPL) as described in the COPYING file.
Requirements
- C compiler like gcc
- Meson build system
- GTK 3.24.0 or above
- libxml 2.4.1 - used to parse XML files
- libgirepository1.0 - Build-time dependency
- xsltproc - for man pages generation
Optional dependencies:
- glib-networking plugins for TLS support (Needed for survey)
- libwebkit2gtk-4.0 - For Webkit plugin
- python-gi - For Python plugin
- libgjs - For JavaScript plugin
- gettext, itstool - For translation support
Download sources from git and build using meson/ninja
# Install dependencies, for example in debian
sudo apt install gcc meson libgtk-3-dev libxml2-dev libgirepository1.0-dev xsltproc gettext itstool
# Optional dependencies
sudo apt install libgjs-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev python-gi-dev glib-networking
# Clone the source repository or download tarball
git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glade.git
# Create build directory and configure project
mkdir glade/build && cd glade/build
meson --prefix=~/.local
# Build and install
ninja
ninja install
To run it you might need to set up LD_LIBRARY_PATH depending on your distribution defaults
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/.local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ glade
Debian
apt install glade
Fedora
yum install glade
Any distribution with Flatpak
flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Glade
Available as a package in MSYS2
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-glade
Available as a package in Brew
brew install glade