Glimmer Ecosystem, Glimte 3rd Party Framework, PasswordStore

Traditionally, Glimmer GUI gems have been mostly a one-sided effort, with a few 3rd party contributions here and there (like Drag and Drop support for Glimmer DSL for Tk). Well, that changes with Glimte! Glimte is a 3rd party framework built on top of Glimmer (Tk flavor) by Phaengris to facilitate following a certain variation of the MVC pattern (Model-View-Controller) called MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel). It encourages a model of programming for desktop GUI views that is similar to Rails .erb and GTK .glade files, but using the Glimmer GUI DSL in .glimmer.rb files as the view format. As such, it provides a much lighter more programmer-friendly Ruby-native replacement for HTML, ERB, and Glade. Consequently, Glimte ushers in the next era of Glimmer; that is The Glimmer Ecosystem! 

The Glimmer Ecosystem enables the democratization of the style of development followed when building Glimmer desktop applications in Ruby, among many other obvious benefits. That in turn facilitates a vision similar to the Rails vision explained by Yahuda Katz in his keynote speech at RailsConf 2014 (at which I presented too), which was borrowed from Steve Jobs. What Yahuda alluded to was that by continuously building more floors for the lower levels of a building in the form of a framework and a community of open-source projects, we enable developers to start development at higher and higher levels than they would have been able to otherwise, thus helping them leapfrog earlier ways of development in ever increasing productivity!

So, what is Glimte?

"MVVM framework based on Glimmer for creating desktop apps in Ruby / Tk" 

- Source: https://github.com/Phaengris/Glimte

Are there any apps built with Glimte?

PasswordStore - "Tk-based desktop client for the Linux password store manager https://www.passwordstore.org/"

 

- Source: https://github.com/Phaengris/PasswordStore

What is pass, the Linux password manager that PasswordStore is built for?

"Password management should be simple and follow Unix philosophy. With pass, each password lives inside of a gpg encrypted file whose filename is the title of the website or resource that requires the password. These encrypted files may be organized into meaningful folder hierarchies, copied from computer to computer, and, in general, manipulated using standard command line file management utilities.

pass makes managing these individual password files extremely easy. All passwords live in ~/.password-store, and pass provides some nice commands for adding, editing, generating, and retrieving passwords. It is a very short and simple shell script. It's capable of temporarily putting passwords on your clipboard and tracking password changes using git." 

- Source: https://www.passwordstore.org/

Below is a full introduction to Glimte, taken straight from the GitHub project page.

Happy Glimmering!