Overview of Changes in 4.6.6, 02-07-2022
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* Fix translations in GTKs own ui files
* Wayland:
- Fix a problem with the activation protocol
- Don't force the HighContrast icontheme
* Windows:
- Fix a problem with builtin icons if the
hicolor icontheme is not installed
Overview of Changes in 4.6.5, 27-05-2022
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* GtkFileChooser:
- Fix pasting text into the name field
* GtkText:
- Remove an assertion that is sometimes hit
* Wayland:
- Ensure that our cursor surfaces don't violate
protocol constraints
* Accssibility:
- Fix a problem in the accessibility tree
Overview of Changes in 4.6.4, 13-05-2022
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* GtkFileChooser:
- Fix select button sensitivity in select_folder mode
- Fix some fallout from list model porting
* GtkListView, GtkColumnView:
- Optimize scrolling
* print-to-file:
- Handle nonexisting files better in the dialog
* Avoid infinite loops in size allocation
* CSS:
- Optimize a case of reparenting that is important in GtkListView
* GSK:
- Check for half-float support before using it
* Wayland:
- Ignore empty preedit updates This fixes a problem with
textview scrolling
- Freeze popups when hidden. This addresses a frame rate drop
Overview of Changes in 4.6.3, 21-04-2022
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* GtkOverlay:
- Bring back positional style classes
* GtkFileChooser:
- Prevent unwanted completion popups
- Fix small problems in save mode
- Fix buildable suport of GtkFileFilter
* GtkPopover:
- Fix button positions in right-to-left locales
* GtkLabel:
- Fix small issues with link handling
* Tooltips:
- Don't restrict the minimum tooltip length
* Theme:
- Don't use opacity for overlay scrollbars
- Fix selection text color in vertical spin buttons
* GSK:
- Accept textures that are generated by webkit
- Align offscreen rendering to the pixel grid
* Accessibility
- Fix a crash in startup when orca is running
* Input:
- Fix display changes in GtkIMMultiContext
- Fix activating on-screen keyboards
- Always propagate hold events in GtkEventControllerScroll
* Windows:
- Fix a critical warning in clipboard handling
- Report serial numbers for events
* MacOS:
- Prevent fullscreen transition reentrancy
Overview of Changes in 4.6.2, 18-03-2022
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* GtkScrolledWindow:
- Set scroll-to-focus on viewports
- Avoid doubly triggering deceleration
* GtkEntry:
- Stop cursor blinking on focus-out
* Emoji:
- Update Emoji data to CLDR 40 and Unicode 14
- Add more locales for Emoji data (da, de, en, es,
fr hu, it, ko, lt, ms, nl, pl, pt, ru, s, uk zh)
* GDK
- Optimize texture conversions on x86 and ARM
- Use EGK_KHR_swap_buffers_with_damage if available
* GSK
- Avoid clearing opaque regions
- Support using a non-default framebuffer
- Handle large viewports by tiling
* Wayland:
- Prefer xdg-activation over gtk-shell
- text protocol: Fix text caret location
- text protocol: Use serials to control outbound messages
* Inspector:
- Show app ID and resource path
* Demos:
- widget-factory: Handle F11 to toggle fullscreen
* Tools:
- gtk-builder-tool: Allow use without display
* Windows:
- Fix preedit window placement on HiDPI
- Build improvements
- Fix fullscreen handling
* MacOS:
- Fix scrolling with an external mouse
- Fix kinetic scrolling with overshoot
- Improve monitor detection
- Many input handling fixes
- Support OpenGL accelerated video playback
- Support fullscreen
- Improve interactive window resizing and moving
- Fix backdrop state handling
- Fix GtkFileChooserNative filtering
- Use CALayer and IOSurface for rendering
- Use per monitor CVDisplayLink to support mixed-rate monitors
- Start applications in foreground
- Fix cursor blink time
Overview of Changes in 4.6.1, 11-02-2022
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* GtkFontChooser:
- Stop using PangoFc api
- Fix a crash
- Use new HarfBuzz api
* GtkMenuButton:
- Update accessible description
* GtkTextView:
- Fix intra-widget dnd
* Printing:
- Fix an fd leak
* Input:
- Make sure input methods get focus-in events
- Always flush events to avoid scroll event pileup
- Support hold events
- Update keysyms from libxkbcommon
* Theme:
- Improve text selection legibility
* Introspection:
- Add missing nullable annotations everywhere
* Build:
- Make stack noexec again
- Avoid symbol leaks
- Drop unneeded script data
* Windows:
- Stop using WM_SYNCPAINT
- Relax check for GL 3.x legacy contexts
- Use native apis for language names
- Rewrite the keymap code
- Use the GL renderer by default
* Wayland:
- Fix support for the new high-contrast setting
- Avoid redundant scale changes
- Fix DND hotspot handling
- Don't always restore the saved size when floating
* MacOS:
- Various performance improvements
Overview of Changes in 4.6.0, 30-12-2021
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* GtkProgressBar:
- Fix handling of "inverted"
* GtkLabel:
- Add a "natural wrap mode" property to influence how
natural width is determined
* GtkTextView
- Scroll insertion on-screen after undo / redo
* gsk:
- Abort region diffing when changes are too complex
* gdk:
- Avoid compressing discrete scroll events
- Fix problems with hiding windows
- Improve GL and GLES version checks
* Wayland:
- Support new high-contrast setting
* Inspector:
- Add DND inspection support
* build:
- Avoid deprecated meson apis
Overview of Changes in 4.5.1, 16-12-2021
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* GtkWidget sizing has been rewritten to implement
width-for-height more properly. This had some fallout,
and some widgets may still not react kindly to the
new way of doing things.
See https://blog.gtk.org/2021/12/03/sizable-news/
for details, and please file issues if you notice fallout.
* Rename git `master` branch to `main`
* Css:
- Fully support font-variant-caps
- Fix a crash with gradients
* Make various widgets activatable:
- GtkComboBox
- GtkDropDown
* GtkPopover:
- Make focus indicators not disappear
* GtkTextView:
- Don't leave embedded children stranded when scrolling
- Don't insert Emoji into non-editable textviews
- Fix Emoji chooser positioning
- Fix problems with pasting text
- Improve scroll-to-mark behavior
- Support right-aligned, centered and decimal tabs
- Make child anchor replacement character settable
- Provide more context to input methods
* GtkDragIcon:
- Provide default icons for paintables and files
* GtkBuilder:
- Speed up template precompilation
* Actions:
- Reduce allocations during signal emissions
- Avoid duplication and unnecessary recursion
* Inspector:
- Show the selected im-module in the General tab
- Add a clipboard viewer
- Make the recorder record events too
- Add a graph visualizing gtk_widget_measure()
* Gsk:
- Fix hexbox rendering
- Fix transformed linear gradient rendering
* Printing:
- Fix dialog-less printing
* Windows:
- Use the common EGL setup code
- Respect GDK_DEBUG=gl-egl
- Fix AeroSnap indicator and positioning
* X11:
- Improve behavior of windows drags on headerbar controls
- Trap errors for RANDR changes
- Fix problems with drag icons
* Wayland:
- Ensure we prefer the Wayland im-module over others
Overview of Changes in 4.5.0
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* gsk:
- Drop the GL renderer in favor of NGL
- Rename NGL to GL
- Fix some coordinate overflow issues
- Reimplement texture upload and download for better
support of image formats and color spaces
- New api:
gsk_transform_skew
gsk_transform_to_2d_components
* gdk:
- Support HSL in gdk_rgba_parse
- Use libpng, libjpeg and libtiff directly when loading
textures, and support more image formats (including 16bit
and float formats)
- New apis:
gdk_texture_new_from_bytes
gdk_texture_new_from_filename
gdk_texture_download_float
gdk_texture_save_to_png_bytes
gdk_texture_save_to_tiff
gdk_texture_save_to_tiff_bytes
gdk_display_create_gl_context
- Implement GIcon and GLoadableIcon in GdkTexture
- Move EGL initialization to the frontend
- Use configless EGL contexts, if supported
- Use >8bit pixel formats, if supported and requested
* css:
- Add support for line-height
- Add support for text-transform
* theme:
- Fixes for buttons in toolbars
* input:
- Update compose sequences from libX11 1.7.2
- Accept replacement string longer than 20 characters
* text:
- Implement sloped caret drawing
- Add a gtk-hint-font-metrics setting to switch
font rendering to be more similar to GTK3
* GtkTextView:
- Add support for line height
- Add support for text transforms
- Misc fixes for css->pango attribute translations
- Invalidate pango contexts when font settings change
- Improve undo grouping when overwriting
* GtkListView:
- Make tree indentation more flexible with
GtkTreeExpander:indent-for-icon
* GtkMenuButton:
- Support custom children
* GtkFlowBox:
- Add prepend and append
* GtkCalendar:
- Fix handling of weeks starting on Monday
* GtkWindow:
- Add a titlebar property
* GtkDropDown:
- Add a show-arrow property
* GtkPopoverMenu:
- Support a use-markup attribute in menu models
* Add GtkSymbolicPaintable
* Tools:
- Support DND in gtk4-node-editor and the inspector's recorder
* Demos:
- Improve the font rendering demo
* Build:
- Require Pango 1.49
- Require libpng, libtiff and libjpeg
- Speed up handling of resources during build
* X11:
- Support touchpad gestures with XInput 2.4
* Windows:
- Fix DND coordinates
Overview of Changes in 4.4.0
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* Input:
- Match IBus for display of Compose sequences
- Match IBus for handling of mismatches
- Handle Escape in Compose sequences
- Allow multiple dead keys
- Support 32bit keysyms
* GtkCheckButton:
- Activate when moving focus
* GtkLabel:
- Propertly ignore double underscores for mnemonics
* GtkPopoverMenu:
- Fix focus cycling
* GtkTextView:
- Improve word selection
- Fix block cursors on empty lines
* GdkToplevel:
- Support the gnome-shell titlebar gesture protocol
* GdkDropTarget:
- Allow creating drop targets in ui files
* gsk:
- Handle partial color fonts correctly
- Use harfbuzz for color font information
- Avoid pango for glyph cache rendering
- Shrink shadow extents
* Settings:
- Change the default for gtk-split-cursor to FALSE
* Demos:
- Small improvements to widget-factory
- gtk-demo: Improve the hypertext demo
- gtk-dem: Improve the clipboard demo
* X11:
- Set WM_CLASS on toplevels
* Wayland:
- Support wl_seat v7
* Windows:
- Drop the local DND protocol
- Avoid WGL if shaders don't work
- Use WinPointer API
Overview of Changes in 4.3.2
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* GtkToggleButton:
- Fix the actionable implementation
* GtkCheckButton:
- Fix the actionable implementation
- Cancel activation on when the pointer leaves
* GtkMenuButton:
- Make activatable again
- Add a way to have an icon + arrow
* GtkColorButton:
- Make activatable again
* GtkFontButton:
- Make activatable again
* GtkAppChooserButton:
- Make activatable again
* GtkColumnView:
- Fix double activation
* GtkLabel:
- Fix mnemonics without markup
* GtkTreeView:
- Clip header buttons
* GtkTextView:
- Add api to get the RTL and LTR contexts
- Fix some errors in text history grouping
* GtkText:
- Don't show placeholder text on top of entry text
- Add api to compute the cursor extents
- Fix y coordinates for text selection
* GtkFileChooser:
- Don't show Trash in the side bar
* GtkPopoverMenu:
- Add scrollbars to long menus
* GtkActionMuxer:
- Fix propagation of accel changes
* Introspection:
- Annotate all filename arguments
- Rename GtkMediaStream apis to avoid name collisions
- Rename GtkDropTarget properties to avoid name collisions
- Make GtkPasswordEntryBuffer introspectable
* Printing:
- Remove the Google Cloud Print backend
* Theme:
- Sync included icons with the Adwaita icon theme
* GSK:
- Avoid overflowing the vertex counter
- Handle negative scales correctly in the ngl renderer
* GDK:
- Cleanup and simplify OpenGL setup code
- Add a GdkDisplay::init_gl vfunc and gdk_display_prepare_gl() api
- Require EGL 1.4
- Fix EGL + NVidia
* Build:
- Enable gstreamer by default
- Disable Vulkan by default
- Remove the sassc option
- Remove options and checks for X11 extensions
* X11:
- Stop using XComposite
- Remove the Visual cache
* Wayland:
- Fix some DND corner cases
- Work with version 2 of pointer-gestures-v1
- Look for cursor themes in $HOME/.icons
* Windows:
- Fix SIGILL on x64 due to popcnt
- Fix popup placement
- Fix drag icon placement
- Clean up HiDPI and WGL support
- Default to WGL
* MacOs:
- Fix input method support
- Register known clipboard types for drop targets
- Add initial DND support
Overview of Changes in 4.3.1
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* GtkEmojiChooser:
- Update data from CLDR 39
- Load Emoji data for both language and territory
* GtkCalendar:
- Fix an off-by-one error in day numbers
* GtkListView:
- Add .activatable style class to activatable items
* GtkCheckButton:
- Don't allow unchecking grouped radio buttons
*GtkToggleButton:
- Fix mnemonic activation propagation
* GtkLabel:
- Make mnemonics work even when invisible
- Fix mnemonic activation propagation
* GtkMenuButton:
- Add a property to mark primary menus and make F10 work
* GtkApplication:
- Fix initial screensaver state async
* GtkEntry:
- Apply xalign to placeholder text (as it was in GTK 3)
* GtkSpinButton:
- Fix swipe gestures
* GtkStackSwitcher:
- Implement GtkOrientable (as it was in GTK 3)
- Fix a use-after-free problem with drag timeouts
* GtkFileChooser:
- Add support for (case-insensitive) suffix matches in GtkFileFilter
* GtkPasswordEntry:
- Make GtkPasswordEntryBuffer public, to make it easier
to write your own password entry widget
* Input:
- Fix interference between various obscure XKB features
(e.g. overlays) and Compose sequences
* Action support:
- Fix submenu-action handling
* Theme:
- Update icons from the Adwaita icon theme
- Fix icon names for GtkSwitch
- Fix switch-off icon
* GSK:
- Improve transformed offscreen rendering
- Add padding between cached glyphs
* Wayland:
- Fix monitor sizes in the presence of transforms
- Add a getter for the EGLDisplay
- Fix click-drag-release sequences for popovers
* X11:
- Support EGL for X11. Fall back to GLX if EGL isn't available
- Always fall back to GLX on NVidia
- Add a getter for the EGLDisplay
* Broadway:
- Add a setter for display scale
* Windows:
- Add a getter for the EGLDisplay
- Make GL work for media playback
* MacOS:
- Fix menubar appearance
* Tools:
- gtk4-builder-tool: Replace can-focus with focusable in 3-to-4 conversion
* Introspection:
- Add missing annotations in a few places (e.g. gtk_free_view_row_activated)
* Build:
- Only build one source file with -mf16c
- Fix devel styling for ci flatpak builds
- Generate appdata for demo flatpaks
* Docs:
- Numerous fixes and additions
Overview of Changes in 4.3.0
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* GtkVideo:
- Detect stream metadata when using gstreamer
* GtkFileChooser:
- Fix a crash
* GtkButton:
- Add back visual feedback for keynav activation
* GtkFontChooser:
- Fix initial font selection
* Text widgets:
- Replace squiggly error underlines by dotted lines
- Support translucent selections
* GtkTextView:
- Various improvements to rendering performance
* GtkScrolledWindow:
- Stop using scroll cursors
* GtkMenuButton:
- Make focus-on-click work
* GtkToggleButton:
- Make grouped buttons mutually exclusive
* GtkPasswordEntry:
- Use MADV_DONTDUMP for secure memory
* GtkListBox:
- Allow repeated selection extension for MULTIPLE
* Themes:
- Reorganize and rename included themes. The theme is now
called Default, with dark, hc and hc-dark variants.
Visually, the themes are unchanged.
- The theme variants are also available as standalone
themes called Default-dark, etc.
- The theme named Adwaita is moving to libadwaita
- Fix resize border sizing
- Fix solid-csd window decorations
* Input:
- Revert some Compose sequence changes (mainly around dead
acute and apostrophe)
- Consume all key events during preedit, to avoid unexpected
interactions
- Ignore more modifiers during preedit, to allow using 3rd and
5th level choosers
- Fix handling of cursor positions in non-ASCII preedit text
- Fix a problem with deferred focus setting
* GdkClipboard:
- Ensure strings are nul-terminated
* GSK:
- Improvements to the ngl renderer
- Fix offscreen rendering with transforms
- Fix downscaled textures
- Avoid huge intermediate textures
- Use fp16 for colors
- Optimize handling of underlines in text
- Fix corner cases of shadow rendering
- Reorganize shader resources
- Make shadow rendering match across renderers
* Accessibility:
- Various fixes to get Orca to speak (still a work in progress)
* Wayland:
- Improve font settings fallback
- Avoid unintentional rendering freezes with popovers
- Support the xdg_activation_v1 protocol
* X11:
- Don't beep on untrusted displays
- Don't crash when popovers are outside the workarea
* Windows:
- Fix using GL rendering with Mesa drivers
* Tools:
- Add support for copy/paste in gtk4-node-editor
- Make syntax highlighting work in the gtk4-demo flatpak
* Inspector:
- Enable the inspector by default, in all cases
- Show keyboard layouts
- Improve monitor information
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