Hi, "Robin Rowe" <rower@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > May I ask a question about the various versions of GIMP and GTK+ 2? > Which versions of GIMP use 1.2x GTK+ and which ones are 2.x GTK+ > versions? gimp-1.2 <-> gtk+-1.2 gimp-1.3 <-> gtk+-2.x > In your GTK+ evolution, what did GIMP gain by going to GTK+ 2 and > what difficulties had to be overcome? What issues, if any, are there > with GTK+ 2 today? most important for The GIMP is probably that fact that the object system has been moved out of GTK+ into GLib/GObject which allows to do a much cleaner separation between the GIMP core and the user interface. Of course The GIMP also benefits from all the other improvements to GLib and GTK+. Here are a few things that come to mind: - improved key navigation - much better i18n - one encoding that rules them all - new widgets (stock icons, treeview, textview, ...) Especially GObject has a whole bunch of nifty features that were not present in the object system that comes with GTK+-1.2. As an example I'd suggest you take a look at the newly introduced GimpConfig system (used to handle user preferences) or check how libgimpmodule allows to load color selector widgets at runtime. We could make a lot more use of the new widgets, especially GtkTreeView, but haven't done yet due to lack of time. The plan is to reimplement GimpContainerListView using GtkTreeView for GIMP-1.4. If you ever compiled one of the latest GIMP development releases you will have noticed that we still make use of deprecated GTK+ widgets. Most certainly even the next stable GIMP release will still use some deprecated GTK+ functions but it's our long-term goal to get the GIMP code completely deprecation-free. Salut, Sven
