New GTK+, Glib, Pango development releases
On the road to GTK+ 2.4 , new development releases of GTK+, Glib, Pango are now available. The main new features of the GTK+ 2.4 toolkit will be a new fileselector UI/API, an easier menu API, and and other various new widgets.
GTK+-2.3.1 is now available for download at:
ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.3/
gtk+-2.3.1.tar.bz2 md5sum: d19a07d0fdb04a68f7a0506900cf9691
gtk+-2.3.1.tar.gz md5sum: 432a1db1775400076e9b74b434af21c5
This is a development release leading up to GTK+-2.4. Changes
since GTK+-2.3.0 consist of numerous small bug fixes and
enhancements, with a special focus on the new GtkFileChooser.
Notes:
* This is unstable development release. There are certainly
plenty of bugs remaining to be found. This release should
not be used in production.
* Installing this version will overwrite your existing
copy of GTK+-2.2. If you have problems, you'll need
to reinstall GTK+-2.2.4.
* GTK+-2.4 will be source and binary compatible with
the GTK+-2.2.x series; however, the new API additions
in GTK+-2.3.x are not yet finalized, so there are likely
incompatibities between this release and the final
2.4 release.
* Remaining API issues for GTK+-2.4 can be found with following
bugzilla query:
* Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org.
What is GTK+
============
GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user
interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable for
projects ranging from small one-off tools to complete application
suites.
GTK+ has been designed from the ground up to support a range of
languages, not only C/C++. Using GTK+ from languages such as Perl and
Python (especially in combination with the Glade GUI builder) provides
an effective method of rapid application development.
GTK+ is free software and part of the GNU Project. However, the
licensing terms for GTK+, the GNU LGPL, allow it to be used by all
pdevelopers, including those developing proprietary software, without
any license fees or royalties.
Where to get more information about GTK+
========================================
Information about GTK+ including links to documentation can be
found at:
An installation guide for GTK+-2.2 is found at:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.2/gtk/gtk-building.html
Common questions:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.2/gtk/gtk-question-index.html
http://www.gtk.org/faq/
Overview of Changes in GTK+-2.3.1
=================================
* Improve sanity checks on gdk-pixbuf loaders [Matthias Clasen]
* GDK
- Add GDK_DEBUG=xinerama that fakes a 2x2 Xinerama mode [Matthias]
- Make gdk_drawable_copy_to_image public [Matthias, Peter Zelezny]
* Misc Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, John Ehresman, Tim Evans]
* Action-based menu/toolbar API [Matthias]
- Add "name" construct-only parameter to GtkActionGroup
- Bug fixes [Marco Pesenti Gritti, Christian Persch]
* Change ranges for Saturation/Value to be 0-100 in GtkColorSelection
[Gregory Merchan, Matthias]
* GtkComboBox [Kristian Rietveld]
- Make model and text_column properties not construct-only [Murray Cumming]
- Fix sizing
- Add mouse wheel support [Matthias]
* Various GtkEntryCompletion bug fixes [Kristian, Piers Cornwell, Marco]
* GtkExpander
- Add a "use_markup" property, gtk_expander_set/get_use_markup
- Fix bugs when unrealizing/destroying [Mark McLoughlin]
* GtkFileChooser [Federico Mena Quintero]
- Add a GtkFileSystemWin32 [Hans Breuer]
- Use GtkEntryCompletion in GtkFileChooserEntry
- Add a render_icon to GtkFileSystemIface to allow the
GnomeVFS backend to supply appropriate icons
- Improve selection handling in bookmarks list [Federico, Owen Taylor]
- Support drops on the bookmarks list
- Display error dialogs on failed operations
- Many UI tweaks [Federico, Iain Holmes,Hans-Petter Jansson]
- Ignore filters for folders [Dave Malcom]
- Misc file chooser bug fixes [Owen, Christian Persch, Taavi Talvik]
* Menus
- Make torn-off menus transient-for the window they were torn from
[Matthias, Jon-Kare Hellan]
- Fix menu positioning for Xinerama, add gtk_menu_set_monitor()
for use by position functions [Matthias]
- Tweak menu delay parameters, add a default width [Soeren Sandmann]
* Make g_message_dialog_new_with_markup() automatically escape
arguments, add g_message_dialog_set_markup() [Owen]
* Add read-only min-position/max-position properties to GtkPaned
* GtkToolbar [Soeren]
- Support gaps in the toolbar with expand=true/draw=false separators
- Improve drop-location preview handling
- Take a GtkRadioToolButton as the parameter to
gtk_radio_tool_button_new_from_widget [Murray Cumming]
- Many misc toolbar bug fixes [Soeren, Marco]
* GtkTreeView bug fixes [Morten Welinder, David Hampton]
* Add gtk_window_is_active()/gtk_has_toplevel_focus() getters
to go along with properties [Owen Taylor]
* Add gtk_widget_can_activate_accel() / ::can-activate-accel
signal to fix handling of accelerators on insensitive parent
menu-items. [Tim Janik]. (*Note*: the details here will probably
change, since similar problems for mnemonics aren't handled.)
* Implement or improve RTL support in GtkAlignment, GtkCombo,
GtkNotebook, GtkScrolledWindow, GtkTreeView, GtkViewport.
[IBM L3 NLS Support Team]
* Fix string setters for self-assignment [Matthias, Soeren]
* Finish multi-head handling in gtk-demo [Matthias]
* Fix install rules for generating gdk-pixbuf.loaders [Manish Singh]
* Reference doc improvements [Matthias, Soeren,
Federico Mena Quintero, Michael Natterer, Owen Taylor, Olexiy Avramchenko]
* FAQ updates [Tony Gale]
* New and updated translations (ca,cs,cy,de,el,es,ja,mn,nl,nn,no,pl,pt,sr,
sr@Latn,sv,th)
Other contributors: Jorn Baayen,Damon Chaplin, Jeff Franks, Diego Gonzalez,
Richard Hult, Egmont Koblinger, Thomas Leonard, Ross McFarland,
Padraig O'Briain, Tomas Ögren, Danilo Segan
8 December 2004
Pango-1.3.1 is now available for download at:
ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.3/
pango-1.3.1.tar.bz2 md5sum: c5f1689623ae04a6276327e54927b656
pango-1.3.1.tar.gz md5sum: c3a23f03b4d68b12f67720fbf6ca2bfc
This is a development release loading up to Pango-1.3.1; changes
in since Pango-1.3.0 are relatively minor; the most interesting
is some additional work by Noah Levitt on finishing Unicode-4.0
support.
Notes:
* This is unstable development release. While it has had
fairly extensive testing, there are certainly plenty of bugs
remaining to be found. This release should not be used
in production.
* Installing this version will overwrite your existing
copy of Pango-1.2. If you have problems, you'll need
to reinstall Pango-1.2.5.
* Pango-1.4 will be source and binary compatible with
the Pango-1.2.x series; however, the new API additions
in Pango-1.3.x are not yet finalized, so there may
be incompatibilities between this release and the final
2.2 release.
* Remaining API issues for Pango-1.4 can be found with following
bugzilla query:
* Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org.
About Pango
===========
Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis
on internationalization. Pango can be used anywhere that text layout
is needed, though most usage so far as been in the context of the
GTK+ widget toolkit. Pango forms the core of text and font handling
for GTK+ 2.
Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout can be used
with four different font backends:
- Core X windowing system fonts
- Client-side fonts on X using the Xft2 library
- Direct rendering of scalable fonts using the FreeType library
- Native fonts on Microsoft platforms
Dynamically loaded modules then handle text layout for particular
combinations of script and font backend. Pango-1.2 ships with a wide
selection of modules, including modules for Hebrew, Arabic, Hangul,
Thai, and a number of Indic scripts. Virtually all of the world's major
scripts are supported.
As well as the low level layout rendering routines, Pango includes
PangoLayout, a high level driver for laying out entire blocks of text,
and routines to assist in editing internationalized text.
More information about Pango is available from http://www.pango.org/.
Pango depends on version 2.2.0 or newer of the GLib library; more
information about GLib can be found at http://www.gtk.org/.
Overview of changes in Pango 1.3.1
==================================
* Support non-Unicode font encodings when supported by fontconfig
[Sven Neumann]
* Draw 6-digit hex boxes for > U+FFFF [Noah Levitt]
* Update to latest fribidi [Noah]
* Honor U+2028 LINE SEPARATOR [Noah]
* Fix a problem with iteration by chars [Mariano Suárez-Alvarez]
* Misc bug and build fixes [Jeff Bonggren, Martin Kretzschmar,
Noah, Sven Neumann, Padraig O'Briain, Manish Singh,
Morten Welinder]
* Fix header file includes to work with recent FreeType.
Owen Taylor
8 December 2003
GLib-2.3.1 is now available for download at:
ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.3/
glib-2.3.1.tar.bz2 md5sum: c320c3c883dba4759b8f04f40079a24e
glib-2.3.1.tar.gz md5sum: f3ecc10b565d097e7613584a0e04e2cf
This is a development release loading up to GLib-2.4. Changes
since GLib-2.3.0 consist mainly of bug fixes and small
improvements; among other things optional header files are now
provided to define the typical _(), N_(), etc, internationalization
macros.
Notes:
* This is unstable development release. While it has had
fairly extensive testing, there are certainly plenty of bugs
remaining to be found. This release should not be used
in production.
* Installing this version will overwrite your existing
copy of GLib-2.2. If you have problems, you'll need
to reinstall GLib-2.2.4.
* GLib-2.4 will be source and binary compatible with
the GLib-2.2.x series; however, the new API additions
in GLib-2.2.0 are not yet finalized, so there may
be incompatibities between this release and the final
2.2 release.
* Remaining API issues for GLib-2.4 can be found with following
bugzilla query:
* Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org.
About GLib
==========
GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis for projects
such as GTK+ and GNOME. It provides data structure handling for C,
portability wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality as
an event loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an object system.
More information about GLib is available at:
An installation guide for the GTK+ libraries, including GLib, can
be found at:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-building.html
Overview of Changes in GLib-2.3.1
=================================
* Add glib/gi18n.h and glib/gi18n-lib.h for common
gettext suport, including a Q() macro for translation
with context [Matthias Clasen]
* Add a more flexible G_FILENAME_ENCODING variable
as a replacement for G_BROKEN_FILENAMES [Matthias]
* Fix the return value g_main_context_iterate() for
newly ready sources [Padraig O'Briain]
* Handle Hangul composition for normalization [Noah Levitt]
* Add G_{MIN,MAX,MAXU}INT{8,16,32}. [Mark Jones, Matthias]
* Add G_GSIZE_FORMAT/G_SSIZE_FORMAT [Manish Singh]
* Add G_STRFUNC as a portable wrapper for __func__ [Tim Janik]
* Documentation improvements [Matthias]
* GObject [Tim Janik]
- Support '-' in g_signal_connect()/disconnect() names
like 'swapped-signal'.
- Add g_type_class_peek_static() and use to optimize
g_object_new() for static types [Tim]
- Allow setting construct-only properties from within
init() implementations
- Enforce readability/writeability in g_object_set/get()
* Fix bug with g_ascii_strtod and multi-byte separator.
[Behdad Esfahbod, Roozbeh Pournader]
* Misc bug fixes [Matthias, John Ehresman, Andrew Lanoix,
Tor Lillqvist, Mark McLoughlin, Tim-Philipp Müller, Manish,
Morten Welinder]
* Updated translations (ca,cs,da,es,fr,ja,nn,no,pt,ru)
8 December 2003