Getting Started

The GNOME Tutorial uses GNOME Builder to generate the project and uses meson as its build system. Unfortunately, these are not compatible with Crystal, so we are going to use a pre-configured repo based on one of Builder's presets.

Let's clone it:

$ git clone https://github.com/GeopJr/gnome-beginners-guide-crystal

• src

This is the directory with the sources of your application, as well as the UI definition files for its widgets.

• src/text-viewer.gresource.xml

The GResource manifest for assets that will be built into the project using glib-compile-resources.

• po/POTFILES

The list of files containing translatable, user-visible strings.

• data/com.example.TextViewer.gschema.xml

The schema file for the settings of the application.

• data/com.example.TextViewer.desktop.

The desktop entry file for the application.

• data/com.example.TextViewer.appdata.xml

The application metadata used by app stores and application distributors.