don't affect the current gtk2+ package, but are required to build the
quartz backend, for which an option will be added. Patch obtained from the
GNOME CVS.
* Speed up size allocation of labels, progress bars and text cell renderers
[Anders Carlsson]
* Add a --quiet option to gtk-update-icon-cache [Matthias]
* GtkFileChooser
- Bug fixes [Federico Mena Quintero]
- Don't overwrite the contents of the name entry when changing folders
in save mode. [Federico]
- Don't return nonexisting folders in save mode [Jean Marie Favreau]
- Fix a size allocation loop [Milosz Derezynski, Robert Ögren]
* GtkAboutDialog
- Better HIG compliance [Jorn Baayen]
* GDK
- Work with Xservers implementing old versions of the Render extension
[Albert Chin]
- Respect _NET_VIRTUAL_ROOTS [Carsten Haitzler]
* Win32
- Bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Ivan Wong, David Neary, Daniel Atallah,
Takuro Ashie]
- Make keyboard input work in Indic languages [Tor]
- Initialize extended input devices lazily [Robert Ögren]
* Other bug fixes [Owen Taylor, Richard Hult, Phil Blundell,
Jens Finke, Michael Natterer, Manish Singh, Kjartan Maraas,
Priit Laes, Dennis Cranston, Remus Draica, Matthias,
Jeff Franks, Elijah Newren, Damon Chaplin, Vincent Ladeuil,
Carlos Garnacho Parro, Thomas Zajic, Crispin Flowerday,
Tommi Komulainen, Søren Sandmann, Chris Lee, Mark McLoughlin]
* Documentation improvements [Murray Cumming, Matthias, Alex Graveley,
Jeff Franks, Christian Rose, Masao Mutoh, Karel Kulhavy, Roger Light]
* New and improved translations (bg,ca,cs,cy,da,de,el,en_CA,es,et,hu,it,
ja,ko,lt,nb,nl,nn,no,pl,pt,pt_BR,sk,sq,sv,zh_CN)
* GtkFileChooser
- Fix some possible threading deadlocks [Matthias Clasen]
- Don't return errors from the private GTK_FILE_SYSTEM_ERROR
domain [Murray Cumming]
- Fix some crashes with unreadable directories [Federico Mena
Quintero]
- Add an "Open Location" item to the context menu [Federico]
* GtkTreeView
- Make sorting work again in list stores [Marcin Krzyzanowski]
- Restrict column reordering to button 1 [Jonathan Blandford]
* GtkComboBox
- Make the button prelight [Ricardo Veguilla]
- Fix state propagation [Carlos Garnacho Parro]
* GtkMessageDialog
- Don't show secondary label until it is set [Christian Persch]
* GtkMenu
- Make items activate immediately on button release [Søren Sandmann]
- Submenus inherit their cascading direction [Matthias]
* gdk-pixbuf
- Fix a possible threading deadlock when loading
animations [Callum McKenzie]
- Make Hyper interpolation work again [Dennis Nezic]
* Win32
- Improve handling of UNC paths [Tor Lillqvist]
- Show the correct Desktop folder in the file chooser [Tor]
- Bug fixes [Tor]
* Bug fixes [Torsten Schoenfeld, Morten Welinder,
Marcin, Seth Nickell, Jonathan, Owen Taylor, Søren,
Iñigo Serna, John Finlay, Zeeshan Ali, Robert Ögren,
Billy Biggs, Brian Tarricone, Tor, Christian, Tristan
Van Berkom, Elijah Newren, Federico, James M. Cape,
Matthias, Arnaud Charlet]
* Documentation improvements [Masao Mutoh, Torsten,
Billy, Alessio Dessi, David Bourguignon, Tommi Komulainen,
Dave Bordoley, Robert Ancell, Kentaro Fukuchi, Matthias,
Christian Biere, Jonathan, Tommi, Stefan Kost]
* New and improved translations (cs,cy,da,de,en_CA,es,ja,lt,nl,sq,sv,zh_CN)
Overview of Changes from GTK+ 2.4.x to GTK+ 2.6.0
=================================================
* New widgets
- GtkIconView
- GtkAboutDialog
- GtkCellView
- GtkFileChooserButton
- GtkMenuToolButton
* New cell renderers
- GtkCellRendererCombo
- GtkCellRendererProgress
* Changes in GtkFileChooser
- Many tweaks to keynav and other behaviour
* Changes in GtkTreeView
- Hover selection
- Hover expand
- Separators
- Insensitive rows
- Typeahead
* Changes in GtkComboBox
- Allow trees in combo boxes
- Hover selection
- Hover expand
- Separators
- Insensitive rows
- Scrolling
* Changes in GtkLabel
- Rotated text
- Ellipsisation
- Dnd from selectable labels
- Selectable labels in the focus chain
- Obey the Pango backspace-deletes-character attribute
* Changes in GtkTextView
- Rotated text
- Obey the Pango backspace-deletes-character attribute
* Changes in Clipboard/Selection/DND handling
- Selection ownerchip change notification
- API to handle text, image and file targets
- Support text/plain target
- Support clipboard persistency
- Support xdnd v5
- Reduce clipboard timeout to 30 seconds
* Theming
- Follow icon theme specification for directory locations
- Themed window icons
- Themed images in GtkImage
- Allow themes to displace focus rectangles on click
- Various new stock icons
* Window Manager interaction
- Support do-not-focus-on-map hint
- Support _NET_WM_USER_TIME
* gdk-pixbuf:
- License information for image loaders
- Disable loaders
- Simple rotation
- Make threadsafe
* Performance improvements
- Increase chunk size for incremental selection transfers
- Get rid of many PLT entries
- Icon theme caching
- Sync counter mechanism to speed up resizes
- Reimplement GtkListStore on top of a splay tree
- Fix algorithmic problems in GtkUIManager
* Win32-specific changes
- Integrate IME input method module
- Integrate ms-windows (Wimp) theme engine
* Other changes
- API for HIG-conform dialogs
- API for stock-like buttons
- New init API based on GOption
- Setting for alternative button order
- Setting for modules to load
- Integrate pixbuf theme engine
- Change notebook tabs with the scroll wheel
- Ellipsisation in GtkCellRendererText, GtkProgressBar, GtkStatusbar
- Clean up abi and enforce list of exported symbols
automatically by pthread.buildlink3.mk. Also, factor out the pthread
library out of PTHREAD_LDFLAGS into a standalone variable PTHREAD_LIBS
and use it in packages where necessary (usually the ones that don't
have a GNU configure script).
GTK+-2.4 adds significant new functionality while maintaining
source and binary compatibility with GTK+-2.2. Highlights
of new features and improvements in GTK+-2.4 are:
New file selector widget
The new GtkFileChooser widgets provide a radically simplified
and improved way for users to select files. Capabilities such as
customizable filters and previews are now available for
application writers. The filesystem access is encapsulated as a
dynamically loaded module; as an example of what this allows,
libgnomeui now provides a gnome-vfs backend for GtkFileChooser
so that it has the same view of remote filesystems as
applications such Nautilus.
New drop-down selection widget
The GtkComboBox widget replaces the old GtkOptionMenu and
GtkCombo widgets with a single unified appearance
and programming interface for both editable and non-editable
dropdowns. Other enhancements provided include customizability
of the main display widget and grid layouts for the drop-down
menu.
Action-based toolbar and menu API
GtkUIManager allows the application to specify a set of
"actions", then create menus and toolbars using those actions
from an XML-like interface description. This separation makes it
easier to coordinate having the same item both in a menu and in
a toolbar and simplifies the implementation of toolbar editing.
Bidirectional editing and interface flipping improvements
GTK+ now automatically determines the base direction for
label and text-entry widgets based on their contents, rather
than requiring it to be specified by the application; this
gives a much better user experience when editing mixed
right-to-left and left-to-right text. Support for user-interface
mirroring in right-to-left locales has now been extended to
cover virtually all widgets.
Other enhancements:
- The GtkTreeModelFilter tree model allows displaying a
filtered view of another tree model
- GtkTreeView now supports a fixed-height-mode for faster
display.
- GtkToolbar has been reworked to provide a more consistent
and extensible programming interface along with new features
such as an overflow menu and animated editing feedback.
- GtkEntry now supports completion dropdowns.
- Named icons via the freedesktop.org icon theme specification
are now supported.
- gdk-pixbuf improvements include a PCX loader and saving
support for the ICO and CUR formats.
- Round trips to the X server at application startup and
during operations such as drag-and-drop have been
greatly reduced.
Subjective extract of changes:
* Only close dialogs on Escape if they have a cancel button. [James Willcox]
* Add Home/End/Page_Up/Page_Down keybindings for menus [Owen,
Narayana Pattipati, Marius Andreiana]
* Improved default color scheme [Soeren Sandmann, with advise from
Tuomas Kuosmanen and Garrett LeSage]
* Make pixmap creation functions take a GdkDrawable not a GdkWindow
[Kristian Rietveld]
* Support move-resize emulation for all edges. [Matthias Clasen]
* Remove extra selections for ButtonRelease in XInput code
[Garry Osgood, Owen]
* Support RTL flipping for statusbars [Matthias]
* Use octal escapes rather than literal UTF-8 in strings [Owen]
* Make a lot of read-only data const. [Matthias, Morten Welinder]
* Use g_get_application_name() for default window titles and
for the title of the client leader window [Owen, Havoc Pennington]
* Complete resize-grippy support, move-resize emulation
[Anders Carlsson, Matthias Clasen]
* On screen change, recreate the widget's Pango context [Owen]
* Make g_object_set (gtk_settings_get_default (), ...) to override
settings from XSETTINGS and ~/.gtkrc [Jonathan Blandford]
* Make GtkInputDialog multihead aware [Owen]
* Add a ::screen-changed signal to GtkWidget [Owen Taylor]
* Draw/check menu items insensitive [Soeren, Tim Evans]
* Add ::snap-edge-set-property to GtkHandleBox [Owen, Matthias]
* RTL flipping improvements for GtkHandleBox, GtkMenuItem, GtkOptionMenu,
GtkCheckMenuItem [Matthias Clasen]
* Handle painting text on dark-colored progressbars [Soeren]
* Sort the input method list in the right click popup [Abigail Brady]
* Don't grab the focus to the default button in a GtkDialog [Daniel Elstner]
* Remove usage of XLookupString outside of GtkIMContextXIM [Owen]
* Handle Shift/Caps/Num_Lock properly for non-Xkb [Owen]
* Add a --screen option to set default screen [Balamurali Viswanathan, Owen]
* Add simple support for startup notification [Havoc Pennington]
* Handle focus indication for check and radio buttons without children
[Dave Camp, Owen]
* Much work on improve submenu navigation [Soeren Sandmann]
* Add "selected_shadow_type" property for menus [Soeren]
* Add "scrollbar_spacing" style property [Anders Carlsson, Owen]
* Rework GtkPaned keynav [Soeren, Calum Benson]
* Sensitivity and keynav fixes for GtkFileSelection [Muktha Narayan, Owen]
* Removed mnemonics for GtkToolbar Items [Mikael Hallendal]
* Allow themes to set GtkTreeView even/odd row colors [Kristian]
* Add support for separately installed Pixbuf loaders [Matthias Clasen]
* Export gdk_event_new(), discourage stack allocated events [Owen]
* gdk_draw_pixbuf() as better name for gdk_pixbuf_render_to_drawable() [Owen]
* Basic support for RandR extension [Keith Packard, Owen]
* Allow moving paned sliders all the way to the edge [Owen, Darin Adler]
* Add tag_table construct property to GtkTextBuffer [Daniel Elstner]
* gtk_window_set_[default_]icon_from_file [Owen, Havoc]
* Multihead support
* Add GdkDisplay, GdkScreen structures
* Add _for_display(), _for_screen() variants where needed in GDK and GTK+
(In other cases, make the variants methods on GdkDisplay/GdkScreen
* Adapt GTK+ widgets to be multihead safe
* Allow initialization of GTK+ without opening a display with gtk_parse_args()
* Add multihead support to demos/tests.
* Xinerama support [Erwann Chenede, Matthias Clasen]
* Allow GDK backends to add custom argument parsing [Sven Neumann]
* Add ::keys-changed signal to GdkKeymap, handle keymap changes for keybindings [Owen]
* Add style property for drawing menu items without shadow [Soeren]
* gtk_widget_modify_color_component/font(): Allow clearing
current modifications. [Owen]
* Add GtkWidget::is_focus, GtkWindow::is_active properties [Owen]
* Some XEMBED changes for standards compliance and Qt compatibility [Owen]
* Improve label behavior when it gets a too small allocation [Soeren]
* Add support for depth 8 StaticColor visuals to gdkrgb [Matthias]
* Theme drawing improvements [Soeren]
* Add types for GtkRowReference, GtkClipboard [Jonathan Blandford, James Henstridge, Owen]
* Use G_TYPE_FLAG_ABSTRACT for abstract types [Matthias]
* Add gtk_menu_shell_select_first() [Owen]
* Add gtk_notebook_get_n_pages() [Havoc Pennington]
* Allow accel_path = NULL for gtk_menu_item_set_accel_path().
* Allow icon sizes to be changed via a GtkSetting [Bill Haneman, Brian Cameron, Owen]
* Improve gdk-pixbuf loader tests [Soeren Sandmann]
* Use iTXT chunks when necessary in PNG image saver [Matthias]
* Add incremental loading for progressive jpegs [Matthias]
* Add load-at-size functionality [Matthias]
* Add a loader for .ANI animations [Matthias]
* Load hotspot for .ICO files [Matthias]
* Add gtk-im-preedit-style/gtk-im-status-style XSETTINGS [Hidetoshi Tajima]
Lots of bug fixes and enhancements.
This is a bug fix release.
Overview of Changes in GTK+ 2.0.2
=================================
* GtkTreeView cursor movement fixes [Kristian Rietveld]
* GtkTreeModelSort iterator stamp fixes [Kristian Rietveld]
Overview of Changes in GTK+ 2.0.1
=================================
* GtkTreeView fixes and performance improvements
[Kristian Rietveld, Jonathan Blandford, Mike Piepe, Dave Camp]
* GtkTextView fixes [Havoc Pennington]
* Fix problems with accelerators on Solaris [Padraig O'Briain]
* Some fixes for key bindings on keypad keys [Owen Taylor]
* Fix problem with RENDER use on big endian machines
[Owen Taylor, with help from Tuomas Kuosmanen]
* Win32 fixes, especially dashed line drawing
[Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer]
* Compile with -D_REENTRANT when appropriate [Sven Numann]
* Compiler warning cleanups [Erwann Chenede]
* Fix handling of font-name XSETTING [Richard Hestilow]
* Make linux-fb backend compile again [Carlo E. Prelz, Alex Larsson]
* Fix problems with inappropriate menu scroll arrows [Owen]
* Stock icon improvements [Jakub Steiner, Tuomas]
* Much work on pixbuf loader robustness [Matthias Clasen]
* Documentation improvements [Matthias, Vitaly Tiskkov]
* Fix some crashes in GtkWindow accelerator handling code
[Dave Camp, Matt Wilson]
* Misc bug fixes
Other contributors: Jacob Berkman, Dennis Björklund, Seth Burgess,
Murray Cumming, Johan Dahlin, John Ellis, Kang Jeong-He,
James Henstridge, Richard Hult, Thomas Leonard, LEE Sau Dan,
Alexey A. Malyshev, Mark McLoughlin, Michael Meeks, Sven Neumann,
Andras Salamon, Soeren Sandmann, Dan Winship, Yao Zhang
The Gimp Tool Kit.
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 projects to
complete application suites.
