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GTK+ 2.8.0 released

Submitted by sanmarcos on Sun, 2005-08-14 21:07. GTK

GTK+2.8.0 has just been released. New features in this version include, most notably, support for the Cairo vector graphics library for rendering most of GTK's traditional widgets with antialiasing, as well as bringing graphics capabilities like the ability to create antialiased shapes, and apply alpha blending and gradients. You can download it from here, and see the release notes here.In other words, this release allows for engine and theme developers to exploit the new OpenGL accelerated (if Cairo was compiled with Glitz support) eye-candy capabilities.

In other news, the Clearlooks engine and theme, the new default them for GNOME 2.12, already has begun work for a version supporting the Cairo library. Screenshots can be seen here.

Are you clinically insane?

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2005-08-17 14:27.

30s to 33s is a 10% increase. Are you really going to claim that's not significant... the GTK developers love people like you.

As for it being new -- oh man, I heard this excuse when GTK2.0 was released, and the same thing was said then: give it time. That eventually morphed into "it does much more" once everyone had given up complaining because Owen Taylor never listened, dropped patches and ignored genuine benchmarks showing how poor his code was.

Why will GTK/Cairo be any different? From the sounds of it, they are waiting for Glitz to come along and hide all their incompetent coding by throwing 3d GFX card hardware at it. No doubt it'll work too... with people like you around willing to let them get away with this sort of thing.

We have a kernel in which developers battle mightily to shave off bytes and milliseconds, and a graphics toolkit where bozo developers haven't even got their own performance measuring tools (presumably because they'd rather not know), and they cover up their ineptitude with Moore's law.

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