Glade, a RAD tool available as a Flatpak package

About Glade

In the next article we are going to take a look at Glade. This is a tool RAD that allows quick and easy development of user interfaces, for the GTK+ 3 toolkit and the GNOME desktop environment.

If you need to speed up the development of user interfaces, in the following lines we will see how install RAD Glade tool on Ubuntu via Flatpak. This is free software, and is released under the GNU GPL license.

The user interfaces that we can create with Glade are saved as XML and, by using the GtkBuilder GTK object, applications can be dynamically loaded as needed, or use them directly to define a new object class derived from GtkWidget, using the GTK+ templating feature.

Usage example with Glade

When using GtkBuilder, Glade XML files can be used in numerous programming languages, including C, C++, C#, Vala, Java, Perl, Python, and others.

Install the RAD Glade tool

To install the RAD Glade tool via the Flatpak package, which can be found available in Flatub, we must have this technology enabled in our system. If you use Ubuntu 20.04 and you still don't have it, you can continue The Guide that a colleague wrote on this blog a while ago.

When you can use this type of packages on your computer, you can open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run the install command:

install Glade as a Flatpak

flatpak install --user https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/org.gnome.Glade.flatpakref

After finishing the installation, if you need update the program, when there is a new version available, you will only have to execute in the terminal:

flatpak --user update org.gnome.Glade

When the whole installation process is finished, you can start the program from the Applications menu, or from any other launcher available on your device. In addition, you can also launch the program by typing in a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T):

glade launcher

flatpak run org.gnome.Glade

uninstall

In case of wanting uninstall this program from your computer, just open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and execute the following command in it:

uninstall glade

flatpak uninstall org.gnome.Glade

Users who want to, can get more information about this program, manuals, etc… from the project website.


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