Week 11,12 and Final Updates by Krish

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+---
+title: "GSoC '25 Week 11 Update by Krish Pandya"
+excerpt: "Tray Widgets, Activity Examples, and More!"
+category: "DEVELOPER NEWS"
+date: "2025-08-17"
+slug: "2025-08-17-gsoc-25-mostlyk-week11"
+author: "@/constants/MarkdownFiles/authors/krish-pandya.md"
+tags: "gsoc25,sugarlabs,week11,mostlyk,tray,activity updates"
+image: "assets/Images/GSOC.webp"
+---
+
+# Week 11: Tray Widgets, Activity Examples, and More
+
+**Project:** [GTK4 Exploration](https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2025/projects/rsHsYZKy)
+
+**Mentors:** [Walter Bender](https://github.com/walterbender), [Ibiam Chihurumnaya Ibiam](https://github.com/chimosky), [Juan Pablo Ugarte](https://github.com/xjuan)
+
+**Reporting Period:** August 10, 2025 – August 17, 2025
+
+---
+
+## Trays, Activities
+
+This after updating the datastore and objectchooser modules, I focused on porting the tray widget and updated the Activity.py even more featuring all the old used components of the GTK3 Toolkit.
+
+## What’s New This Week?
+
+### Presence
+
+- Integrated the Presence from previous GTK3 toolkit into the new GTK4 toolkit.
+- Communication between activities is now possible using the Presence.
+
+### Activity Expansion
+
+- Updated to handle all the old components of the GTK3 toolkit. Except the 2 Bundling methods.
+- Demonstrated using 2 new examples.
+
+#### Simple Activity Example
+
+- Demonstrates basic usage of the new toolkit components.
+- Allows saving and loading text files using the new modules.
+- Showcases the integration of various widgets and functionalities.
+
+#### Additional Activity Example
+
+- Showcases more complex way of integrating Custom Widgets.
+- Users can draw shapes, use tools from toolbar and save as well as preview drawings.
+
+### Documentation
+
+- With the library maturing, we have to fake root some stuff while running on local machines.
+- Added how to present metadata and how to fake root in the README.
+
+## VM Testing
+
+- Tested the new library on a VM with Fedora 42 SoaS.
+
+## Closing Thoughts and Next Steps
+
+- The library has matured enough that I should start documenting for the last weeks and future plans for the contributors on how to continue from here and where it leads on.
+- Start doing sphinx documentation for the library. (_foreshadowing as it has already been started at the time of writing this_)
+- Bundle discussion with mentors for next week’s blog post.
+
+---
+
+## Resources & Links
+
+- [Project Page](https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2025/projects/rsHsYZKy)
+- [New Python Library (sugar-toolkit-gtk4-py)](https://github.com/MostlyKIGuess/sugar-toolkit-gtk4-py)
+- [New C Library (sugar-ext)](https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-ext)
+- [Game Demo Video](https://youtu.be/B517C_LTCns)

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+title: "GSoC '25 Week 12 Update by Krish Pandya"
+excerpt: "Sphinx , Bundling Discussion, and Future Plans"
+category: "DEVELOPER NEWS"
+date: "2025-08-25"
+slug: "2025-08-25-gsoc-25-mostlyk-week12"
+author: "@/constants/MarkdownFiles/authors/krish-pandya.md"
+tags: "gsoc25,sugarlabs,week12,mostlyk,sphinx,bundling updates"
+image: "assets/Images/GSOC.webp"
+---
+
+
+# Week 12: Sphinx , Bundling Discussion, and Future Plans
+
+**Project:** [GTK4 Exploration](https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2025/projects/rsHsYZKy)
+
+**Mentors:** [Walter Bender](https://github.com/walterbender), [Ibiam Chihurumnaya Ibiam](https://github.com/chimosky), [Juan Pablo Ugarte](https://github.com/xjuan)
+
+**Reporting Period:** August 17, 2025 – August 25, 2025
+
+---
+
+## Sphinx Documentation
+
+Having the whole library in a working state and getting finished with Activity, which is the essential element to make any sort of activity, I started working on the Sphinx documentation for the library.
+
+Link: [GTK4-Toolkit-Documentation](https://sugar-toolkit-gtk4-py.readthedocs.io/)
+
+## What’s New This Week?
+
+### Documentation
+
+- Contains everything from examples to API references.
+- Indexed in the manner of:
+  - Activity Framework ( sugar.activity )
+  - Graphics and UI (sugar.graphics)
+  - Data and Storage (sugar.datastore )
+  - Bundle Management (Yet to be implemented)
+  - Collaboration (sugar.presence )
+  - Event System (sugar.dispatch)
+  - Core Utils (sugar package)
+  - Examples
+
+### Meet Regarding Bundling
+
+- Had a pleasure to meet Martin , Juan , Walter and Ibiam to discuss the bundling methods.
+- We decided on to using the old method of bundling as it is more straightforward and easier to implement , for the most part GTK independent.
+- Bundling was implemented and Hello World activity was successfully bundled and tested on a clean Fedora Sugar on a Stick.
+
+## ComboBox, ToggleToolButton and ToolComboBox
+
+- Added 3 new widgets to the library.
+- Added the corresponding examples for the same as well it's tests.
+- Will keep adding more widgets as I go.
+
+### Future Sugar Plans
+
+- Flatpak Ports
+- Sugar Shell Ports
+- Complete Wayland Port
+
+## Closing Thoughts and Next Steps
+
+- Documentation was possible as I had written docstrings for most of the methods and classes while writing the library. ( I am so happy about this )
+- Documentation covers everything from examples to API references.
+- Will write the final blog post and wrap up the project and how to continue from here for future contributors.
+
+---
+
+## Resources & Links
+
+- [Project Page](https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2025/projects/rsHsYZKy)
+- [New Python Library (sugar-toolkit-gtk4-py)](https://github.com/MostlyKIGuess/sugar-toolkit-gtk4-py)
+- [Documentation](https://sugar-toolkit-gtk4-py.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)

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+---
+title: "GSoC '25 Final Week Update by Krish Pandya"
+excerpt: "Everything Everywhere all at Once"
+category: "DEVELOPER NEWS"
+date: "2025-09-01"
+slug: "2025-09-01-gsoc-25-mostlyk-final"
+author: "@/constants/MarkdownFiles/authors/krish-pandya.md"
+tags: "gsoc25,sugarlabs,final week,mostlyk,bundling updates,future"
+image: "assets/Images/GSOC.webp"
+---
+
+
+# Final Week: Everything Everywhere all at Once
+
+**Project:** [GTK4 Exploration](https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2025/projects/rsHsYZKy)
+
+**Mentors:** [Walter Bender](https://github.com/walterbender), [Ibiam Chihurumnaya Ibiam](https://github.com/chimosky), [Juan Pablo Ugarte](https://github.com/xjuan)
+
+**Reporting Period:** August 17, 2025 – August 25, 2025
+
+---
+
+## Confession Time
+
+This marks the end of my GSoC blogs, (_more blogs yet to come_) but this, better be the magnus opus of all my blogs. I have been postponing this blog for a while because I wanted it to start perfect , end perfect and be perfect throughout. So it starts with confession time, this blog is not perfect, this idea is not perfect. I started off for port with the idea of it being perfect, but GSoC taught me a lot of things, one of them is "perfection is the enemy of done". So here I am, writing this blog, not perfect but done.
+
+## Humble Beginnings
+
+The first few changes were too simple almost, read GTK3 line by line, translate it to GTK4 and voila, done. Starting with update `gi.require_version`, fixing build includes, this was all tutorial. Then the first boss fight, `GdkEvent`!. In GTK3 you can just reach the code and grab whatever you want, but in GTK4, that pointer ->x was shut down. This was the first "welcome to the game". Demanded new philosophy, stop translating , start thinking!
+
+The project was re-structured from the second week itself and we decided to write a new library from scratch, keeping the old GTK3 toolkit as reference.
+( The pivotal call in Week 2 with my mentors Juan Pablo and Ibiam wasn't just a check in , it was complete teardown of the old plan and a fresh start.)
+It was ambitious, but I was determined to make it work. First few weeks were like a breeze, I write, I poke at it, write an example and done. Write the blog for that week and done. But as the weeks progressed, the project got more and more complex.
+The first time I felt truly stuck was Palettes, when I had to deal with X11 , wayland discourse and all that jazz. Sticking with it, finally got it working.
+As the weeks progressed, workflows changed, now it's not about writing code, it's about finding origins of the bugs, reading GTK4 docs, reading protocols and old code deeply. Refactor more , write less.
+
+## Absurdity and the Obstacle
+
+We are around few weeks in, to give you the sense of idea that I had. I would explain it in a way where, I knew where everything was, where everything would go, but wasn't sure if it was correct or not. It was a limbo. The shift from direct signals to abstract Gesture objects and the death of `draw()` in favor of `snapshot()` were major shifts. Quietly things ran, it was the mid-point and I was able to build "Super Ball Dodge", a simple game that was my proof of work, a sign that the new library was functional and could do something dynamic. But the real test was yet to come.
+
+Everything was going well, then came _Palettes_ the Obstacle. On X11 , you could ask, "Where is my widget on the screen?" and get a straight answer. On Wayland? for security reasons it was forbidden knowledge. This was a tough one, many gnome discourses later, my popovers started to pop. By week 10, the biggest challenges were behind me.
+
+## Path Forward
+
+With the graphics layer stable, it was time to bring back datastore, presence, and all the other things that made Sugar, Sugar.
+Most were GTK independent, so it was just a matter of plugging them in and testing. We had some plans for modernizing the bundling system, but that will be for future ( check week-12 future plans ) . The goal was to get the new library stable and usable, and that was achieved.
+The library was pushed to [pypi](https://pypi.org/project/sugar-toolkit-gtk4/#description) and can be installed via pip:
+
+```
+pip install sugar-toolkit-gtk4 
+```
+
+Finally for the last week, I focused on documentation, the map for future explorers. Documentation built with sphinx, is clean, comprehensive and live at [sugar-toolkit-gtk4-py.readthedocs.io](https://sugar-toolkit-gtk4-py.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
+
+I will attach all the videos and links at the end of the blog, but for now, I want to thank my mentors Walter Bender, Ibiam Chihurumnaya Ibiam and Juan Pablo Ugarte for their constant support and guidance. This journey has been incredible, and I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to Sugar Labs and the open-source community. Also a thanks to Martin Abente for his help with bundling discussions.
+
+And now, for the first time in 13 blogs, there will be no "Future Plans." Instead, I'll leave you with a quote from one of my favorite films, Perfect Days:
+[clip](https://youtu.be/F24IoeMlM3Y?si=xeY2M1n1B-fzz0kS)the quote says. "Next Time is Next Time, Now is Now".
+
+So here I am, signing off, not with future plans, but with a promise to keep my presence and contributions, keep learning and keep growing.
+Thank you once again, it has been a great summer!
+
+## Resources & Links
+
+- [Project Page](https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2025/projects/rsHsYZKy)
+- [New Python Library (sugar-toolkit-gtk4-py)](https://github.com/MostlyKIGuess/sugar-toolkit-gtk4-py)
+- [Documentation](https://sugar-toolkit-gtk4-py.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
+- PyPI: [sugar-toolkit-gtk4](https://pypi.org/project/sugar-toolkit-gtk4/#description)
+
+## Video Demonstrations
+
+_Update with the final Sugar Presentation video once available_
+
+- [Event Controller Video](https://youtu.be/m0gwwo_0ZDE)
+- [Sugar Python Initialization Video](https://youtu.be/OD1PBOK3g94)
+- [Menu and Style Video](https://youtu.be/-WTojjHpQLs)
+- [Animations, ToolBox and Super Ball Dodge](https://youtu.be/B517C_LTCns)
+- [Palettes, Popovers and Bundling](https://youtu.be/gbaG9CaJJ-U)