I've been using the open source Beeftext very successfully. Works across windows, so not cross platform like espanso, but a little bit more user friendly. Able to drop in entire templates with formatting. https://beeftext.org/. Source: about 1 year ago

Beeftext (free) which someone reviewed as being a replacement for Apple text replacement, AutoText (free to use),. Source: over 1 year ago

I guess it's not as featurerich as Snippety, but I really like Beeftext on Windows! It's open source and free and works really well. Source: over 1 year ago

I came across this non vegan app lol, called https://beeftext.org/ which is a text expander and you can save your replies to reuse over and over. Source: over 1 year ago

You could use a text expander like Beeftext or Espanso so that typing something like :ee will replace it with Interviewee and :er will replace it with Interviewer. Source: over 1 year ago

Basically title, I see that https://glade.gnome.org/ from apt info glade points to an empty website. Source: about 1 year ago

The Glade website says that, as of August 2022, it's not being developed anymore and I remember reading an article somewhere (Phoronix?) saying that the GTK devs consider it deprecated and want you hand-writing GTKBuilder XML instead. I remember hearing several months ago that the GTK devs were deprecating Glade in favour of expecting people to hand-write GTKBuilder XML. Source: over 1 year ago

So, what's the best way to tackle the challenge: writing GNOME extensions + bind them to GNOME app, or GJS, or Glade, or something else? I thought about working directly with the specific tool's source code but then I realise it'll be just a waste of my time decoding the code written by somebody else for the sake of adding a few hundred lines of code that would still make just a miserable part of the original... Source: over 1 year ago

Can't argue with that, but to me it seems that things have substantially deteriorated since desktop GUIs fell out of fashion. Maybe that tells you more about my age than about the state of the art, but in the 90's one could "learn" GUI programming in about 30min in a RAD tool by throwing controls in containers and implementing callback functions in "direct style" for the event (Qt , swing, Java/ScalaFX, Gtk,... Source: over 1 year ago

I'm also learning Pyhton with GTK. I don't know if you already use GTK4 or if you decided to stick with GTK3 to be able to generate the xml file with Glade (drag and drop) because GTK4 isn't supported by Glade. That being said for GTK4 and python I found a very nice guide right here. Source: about 2 years ago