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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.

excuse, excuses

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2005-08-18 03:37.

...but it doesn't mean anything in this context. So, why are you asking? In percentage it seems like a big number, but a difference of 3 seconds is _nothing_. I didn't notice any difference at all compared to the previous version, unless I explicitly ran gtkperf. In normal use it was just the same.

A difference of 3s is (as I already explained) 10 BLOODY percent... in an absolutely critical part of the PC. You are out of your mind -- *and* you have no idea about coding and optimisation. "I don't notice it --" I wouldn't notice a 10% increase in RAM usage either, until I started to push my PC a bit. As I said, kernel developers would freak over something like this -- you, apparently, are quite willing to sit back and defend it.

As for "the next version" -- this version will be the basis for GNOME 2.12 and as I already said, THIS version has already been optimised -- what it doesn't have is Glitz, the part that will use your card's 3d hardware and use costly hardware to hide what a con-artist Owen Taylor and pals really are -- at the expense of good coding.

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