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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.

dude

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2005-08-18 10:27.

What's your problem? Do you have any social skills, or do you like hiding behind the anonymity of your computer? You may, and probably do, have a valid complaint. But you vehement ranting, name calling, and general rudeness does not make people want to sympathize with you.

First of all, if you had a project and somebody said "You're code sucks you idiot, you should optimize it" would you listen to them? Would you accept a patch if it broke something, didn't meet coding standards, or complicated the api? If you really want to help out, get some real numbers for specific parts of the toolkit that are the problem, such as "When I create a treeview with 10,000 entries with cell renderer type x and with fixed height/width it uses this amount of RAM and takes this many seconds to move the focus halfway down the list." This is the kind of feedback developers need for optimization. A simple "Gtk is 3 seconds slower than the last release" doesn't help at all.

Second, the kernel cares about minute optimization because it is the direct interface to the hardware. Bottlenecks in scheduling or latency vastly affect the entire system. People use it for mission critical servers, real-time applications, and clustering in addition to desktop usage. Resource usage in Gtk has nowhere near the same effect. Optimization is a worthy goal, but it is not a primary goal, especially when there are still some much greater problems with respect to the linux desktop.

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