GTK+-2.5.2 is now available for download at: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.5/ gtk+-2.5.2.tar.gz md5sum: dcaf498b1b89193e17ab6b8b47c51f23 gtk+-2.5.2.tar.bz2 md5sum: 2e68e16cfb3194f691b06ed74b65d65a This is the third development release loading up to GTK+-2.6. This release contains the new GtkFileChooserButton widget, a couple of new features in existing widgets and a number of bugfixes. While we don't consider this release to be API-frozen yet, we do consider it as an "API review" release, and would like to ask everybody to take a look at the new APIs (GtkFileChooserButton, GtkIconView,...) and functionalities (e.g. trees in GtkComboBox) and give us some feedback. It might be a good idea to take an application which uses GnomeFileEntry or GnomeIconList and try to port it to the new GTK+ APIs to see where the gaps are. Notes: * This is unstable development release. There are certainly plenty of bugs remaining to be found. This release should not be used in production. * Installing this version will overwrite your existing copy of GTK+-2.4. If you have problems, you'll need to reinstall GTK+-2.4.7. * GTK+-2.6 will be source and binary compatible with the GTK+-2.4.x series; however, the new API additions in GTK+-2.5.2 are not yet finalized, so there are likely incompatibities between this release and the final 2.6 release. * Remaining API issues for GTK+-2.6 can be found with following bugzilla query: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=gtk%2b&target_milestone=2.6+API+Freeze&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED * Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org. What is GTK+ ============ 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 tools to complete application suites. GTK+ has been designed from the ground up to support a range of languages, not only C/C++. Using GTK+ from languages such as Perl and Python (especially in combination with the Glade GUI builder) provides an effective method of rapid application development. GTK+ is free software and part of the GNU Project. However, the licensing terms for GTK+, the GNU LGPL, allow it to be used by all developers, including those developing proprietary software, without any license fees or royalties. Where to get more information about GTK+ ======================================== Information about GTK+ including links to documentation can be found at: http://www.gtk.org/ An installation guide for GTK+-2.4 is found at: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.4/gtk/gtk-building.html Common questions: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.4/gtk/gtk-question-index.html http://www.gtk.org/faq/ Overview of Changes from GTK+ 2.5.1 to GTK+ 2.5.2 ================================================= * GtkFileChooserButton - New widget to go along with GtkFontButton and GtkColorButton for use in preference dialogs. [James M. Cape] * GtkFileChooser - Add getter and setter for the ::show-hidden property [Jeff Franks] - Allow paths to be entered as part of the filename. [Federico Mena Quintero] - Make separator in bookmarks pane unselectable [Matthias Clasen] - Improve activation on focus [Federico] - Avoid warnings when opened on non-default screens [Abel Daniel] - Fix some memory leaks [Federico] * GtkEntryCompletion - Warn if text column has wrong type [Fernando San Martin Woerner, Gustavo Carneiro] * GtkTextView - Obey the Pango backspace_deletes_character attribute [Noah Levitt, Teppitak Karoonboonyanan] * GtkTreeView - Add hover-expand mode [Matthias] - Fix fixed height mode [Michael Vogt, Tim-Philipp MÃller, Pawel Salek] - Reimplement GtkListStore on top of a splay tree [Soeren Sandmann] * GtkEntry - Track the selection more accurately when dragging and selecting [Soeren] * GtkComboBox - Support trees in combo boxes [Matt Walton, Matthias] - Optimize non-spanning gridded layouts [Lorenzo Gil Sanchez, Matthias] - Handle sensitivity changes properly [Matthias] - Add a ::focus-on-click property [Matthias] * GtkIconView - Fix BROWSE selection mode [Matthias] - Make accessible [Padraig O'Briain] * GtkAboutDialog - Change the API to be more binding-friendly [Oliver Andrieu] * GtkUIManager - Accept paths with leading '/' everywhere. [David Malcolm] - Make GtkActionEntry* arguments const [Mariano Suarez-Alvarez] - Add a way to suppress overflow menu items [Christian Persch] * GtkPlug/GtkSocket - Use the sync counter mechanism to speed up resizes [Soeren] * GDK - Support XDND v5 [Owen Taylor, Matthias] - Complete the _NEW_WM_USER_TIME implementation [Elijah Newren] - Update the _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW implementation [Elijah] * gdk-pixbuf - Avoid infinite loops for bad BMPs [Chris Evans, Manish Singh] - Fix a problem with GDK_INTERP_NEAREST scaling which caused Nautilus thumbnails to be misdrawn [Christoph Fergeau] - Avoid segfaults in gdk-pixbuf-csource [Matthias] - Fix progressive loading of 8bit pcx files [Magnus Bergman] - Handle edge pixels consistently [Brian Cameron, Matthias] - Handle OS/2 BMPs [Jon-Kare Hellan] * Performance - Get rid of many PLT entries for internally used exported symbols, and clean up the ABI at the same time and make make check check the list of exported symbols. [Arjan van de Ven, Matthias] * Look up icon themes in the directories specified in the icon theme spec [Matthias] * Win32 bug fixes [Robert Ãgren, Hans Breuer, Tor Lillqvist, Tim Evans] * Other bug fixes [Matthias, Soeren, Pawel, David, Tor, Gustavo, Olivier, Manish, Robert, Christian Biere, Markku Vire, Markus Lausser, Thomas Leonard, Morten Welinder, Torsten Schoenfeld, Tim Janik, Tomislav Jonjic, Tommi Komulainen, Philip Langdale, Rich Wareham, Christian Persch, Vincent Noel, Christophe Fergeau] * Documentation improvements [Matthias, Mariano, Axel Simon, Jonathan Blandford] * New and updated translations (ang,br,bs,eu,lt,wa,zh_CN) A list of all bugs fixed in this release can be found at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=150159,150983,148978,148733,149011,119891,139582,148358,148868,149190,149191,149195,149077,142334,133446,145610,148715,10220,141809,148702,144232,106992,148526,147864,149404,145519,149836,149422,143457,149620,149728,149999,149547,135955,148803,143249,150007,150146,148641,150101,150147,148108,148694,150351,150440,149251,150738,150414,150406,150289,150320,145481,149013,145467,148526,150607,150466,150668,150502,150822,136496,150941,150869,148518,111922,149967,150003,150601,150882,164470 August 25, 2004 _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
