GNOME's libadwaita Introduces Adaptive Sidebar Widget
([GNOME] 3 Hours Ago
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Following last week's [1]GNOME 49 release , This Week in GNOME is out with their latest weekly summary of all interesting GNOME developments. Notable now for this post-49.0 time is libadwaita adding an adaptive sidebar widget.
AdwSidebar has been added to libadwaita as an adaptive sidebar widget. There is also AdwViewSwitcherSidebar as a view switcher variant. These libadwaita additions are intended to be a replacement to GTK's GtkStackSidebar widget.
Those curious about this new libadwaita adaptive sidebar widget and other GNOME changes post-49.0 can see [2]This Week in GNOME for all the details.
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-49-Released
[2] https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/09/twig-218/
AdwSidebar has been added to libadwaita as an adaptive sidebar widget. There is also AdwViewSwitcherSidebar as a view switcher variant. These libadwaita additions are intended to be a replacement to GTK's GtkStackSidebar widget.
Those curious about this new libadwaita adaptive sidebar widget and other GNOME changes post-49.0 can see [2]This Week in GNOME for all the details.
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-49-Released
[2] https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/09/twig-218/
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