From: Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> To: gnome-announce-list@gnome.org, gtk-list@gnome.org, gtk-devel-list@gnome.org Subject: New release of GTK+ libraries (1.3.6) Date: 14 Jun 2001 16:17:20 -0400 A new release of the development versions of GTK+ and associated libraries (GLib, Pango, Atk) is available at: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v1.3/ The JPEG/PNG/TIFF libraries and pkg-config 0.7 are needed to compile this release. These are available at: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v1.3/dependencies/ (pkg-config latest canonical upstream location is at http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/ - note that it has moved from sourceforge. But gtk.org mirrors the 0.7 version you need to build GTK 1.3.6) You will also need "libiconv" on systems with C libraries that lack the iconv() function: http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/packages-libiconv.html New all-in-one tarball ===== This release has an experimental all-in-one-tarball feature. The gtk+-all-1.3.6.tar.gz file contains all four GTK+ libraries (GLib, Pango, Atk, GTK+) and can be compiled with a single "configure; make; make install" sequence. Library Descriptions ===== GLib 1.3.6 GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis of GTK+ and GNOME. It provides data structure handling for C, portability wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an object system. http://www.gtk.org Pango 0.17 Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis on internationalization. It forms the core of text and font handling for GTK+-2.0. http://www.pango.org Atk 0.1 The ATK library provides a set of interfaces for accessibility. By supporting the ATK interfaces, an application or toolkit can be used such as tools such as screen readers, magnifiers, and alternative input devices. http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/ GTK+ 1.3.6 GTK+ is a widget toolkit for X and other windowing systems. It is used in such projects as the GIMP and GNOME. http://www.gtk.org Notes ===== This release is meant for: * Those interested in the development of GTK+. * People planning to port to the upcoming GTK+-2.0 version of GTK+. Note: the API is mostly frozen at this point. Major API changes beyond the remaining open '2.0 API freeze' bugs in bugzilla are unlikely to occur before GTK+-2.0 is released. This is a an unstable preview release and should not be used in production. Only minimal testing has been done, and we expect that significant bugs and portability problems remain at this point. This release is incompatible with GTK+ and GLib 1.2.x. Software that has not been explicitly ported will not compile with this version. Do not send bug reports about such compilation problems to either us or maintainers of software that uses GLib and GTK+ 1.2.x; The currently supported version of GLib and GTK+ is version 1.2.10. If you install these libraries, do NOT replace your current GLib and GTK+ packages with them; these libraries are designed so they can be installed in parallel with a GTK+ install without affecting it. Comments should be sent to: GLib, GTK+: gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list Pango: gtk-i18n-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-i18n-list ATK: gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list Bug reports should be filed in the GNOME bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.gnome.org Source and binary packages of these libraries build against Red Hat 7.1 can be found at: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v1.3/binary/RedHat-7.1 The source RPMS can most likely be rebuilt and installed on other RPM-based Linux distributions. Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.6 ================================= * Threads have a "return value" from g_thread_join * Removed ability to adjust thread stack size * Prefix warnings with progname/PID by default, change toggle for this to be an env variable G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED not a compile-time option * GMarkup speedups * GDate const, convenience fixups * Include test cases that headers are compilable by C++ compiler * Add ability to spawn processes with argv[0] != executable path. * g_strstr_len, g_strrstr, g_strrstr_len * Add length argument to g_utf8_strchr and g_utf8_strrchr. * Misc bug fixes Overview of Changes in Pango 0.17 ================================= * Build/bug fixes * Cursor motion is now by graphemes (logical editing units) rather than by characters * Optionally support jumping cursor instead of split cursor Overview of Changes in Atk 0.2 ================================= * Some API tweaks Overview of Changes in GTK+ 1.3.6 ================================= * Properly renders strikethrough text * win32 fixes * Added "scale" property to GtkTextTag and GtkCellRendererText to do relative font scaling * Added "format_value" signal to GtkScale to reformat value text * framebuffer fixes * Property support added to lots of widgets * Many GtkTreeView new features and API/implementation fixes * Lots of new_with_mnemonic() convenience functions * Change GtkImageMenuItem API to be more consistent/useful * Added lots of new stock items/icons * Rewrote GtkRange/GtkScale/GtkScrollbar, includes support for enabling/disabling extra scrollbar stepper arrows in gtkrc so NeXT themes won't need broken hacks * Convenience API for GtkRange similar to the one added to GtkSpinButton a while back * Make menubar/toolbar work properly with xthickness/ythickness of 1 or 0, and move some attributes from program settings to user settings. Allows nice 1-pixel-bevel themes. * Moved ::focus virtual function from GtkContainer to GtkWidget * Plenty of bug fixes _______________________________________________ gnome-announce-list mailing list gnome-announce-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-announce-list