GTK+ 2.20.0 is now available for download at: http://download.gnome.org/sources/gtk+/2.20/ ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/2.20/ sha256 sums: 8ea7e11ff88e9a8867b7d9221d40a3bfce5c648ce27cd6bac422ff8f6cca414d gtk +-2.20.0.tar.bz2 273b134bafa41ecc96d7c3807637503db3f5fbc7accb23a4a92063a713dc0540 gtk +-2.20.0.tar.gz Release notes are available at: http://www.gtk.org/release-notes.txt 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. GTK+ is the only 100% free-of-cost open source industrial-strength GUI toolkit available today. Since its origins as the toolkit for the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), GTK+ has been used in a wide range of software. Notably, GTK+ is the foundation of the GNOME desktop; GTK+ 2.20 will be incorporated into version 2.30 of the GNOME desktop. What's new in GTK+ 2.20 ======================= GTK+ 2.20 adds new functionality while maintaining source and binary compatibility with GTK+ 2.18. Highlights of new features and improvements in GTK+ 2.20 are: Noteworthy new APIs GtkSpinner, GtkCellRendererSpinner - A new widget that renders a 'spinner' animation to indicate ongoing activity. The corresponding cell renderer renders the same animation inside a treeview GtkOffscreenWindow - A new toplevel container widget to manage offscreen rendering of child widgets Changes in GtkNotebook - GtkNotebook allows to show 'action widgets' in the space that is not occupied by tabs. This functionality is also available in GtkBuilder via the 'action-start' and 'action-end' child types. Changes in the file chooser - GtkFileSystemModel has been reimplemented, for major speedups and simplifications. Changes in keyboard handling - The compose sequences understood by the builtin input method have been synced with X.org, and the additional sequences have been rationalized - Mnemonic underlines can now optionally be hidden until the Alt key is pressed, this can be turned on with the gtk-auto-mnemonics setting - The Super, Meta and Hyper modifiers are working more reliably in keyboard accelerators. GDK changes - There is a new function to get the 'primary' monitor in multi-monitor setups: gdk_screen_get_primary_monitory. gdk-pixbuf changes - Embedded color profiles in png and tiff images can be stored and retrieved - Support for the QTIF image format has been added Win32 changes - XP themes have been disabled since they don't work OS X changes - GTK+ uses standard Mac keyboard shortcuts (Cmd-X/Cmd-C instead of Ctrl-X/Ctrl-C, etc) - The handling of multi-monitor setups has been greatly improved Introspection support - Introspection data is now included in GTK+ itself. As a consequence, a dependency on gobject-introspection has been added For more details and lists of fixed bugs, see the announcements for the 2.19.x development releases: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2009-November/msg00001.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2009-December/msg00000.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2009-December/msg00074.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2010-January/msg00045.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2010-January/msg00063.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2010-February/msg00023.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2010-February/msg00050.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2010-March/msg00044.html 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.x is found at: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-building.html Common questions: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-question-index.html http://www.gtk.org/faq/ Contributing ============ GTK+ is a large project and relies on voluntary contributions. We are actively searching for new contributors in various areas and invite everyone to help project development. If you are willing to participate, please subscribe to the project mailing lists to offer your help and read over our list of vacant project tasks: http://live.gnome.org/GtkTasks The GTK+ Team: Jonathan Blandford, Hans Breuer, Kristian Rietveld, Matthias Clasen, Tim Janik, Tor Lillqvist, Federico Mena Quintero, Søren Sandmann, Manish Singh, and Owen Taylor Thanks to everybody else who has contributed to this release: Adrian Johnson, Alan Knowles, Alexander Larsson, Bastien Nocera, Benjamin Otte, Carlo Bramini, Carlos Garcia Campos, Christian Dywan, Christian Persch, Chris Wilson, Cody Russell, Colin Walters, Damien Lespiau, Danielle Madeley, Dan Winship, Debarshi Ray, Dom Lachowicz, Eitan Issacson, Emmanuele Bassi, Hib Eris, Hiroyuki Ikezoe, Jan Arne Petersen, Javier Jardón, Johan Dahlin, Juan A. Suarez Romero, Kevin Peng, Marek Kasik, Matt Barnes, Matthew Barnes, Michael Natterer, Mike Emmel, Paolo Bonzini, Paolo Borelli, Peter Hutterer, Rafal Luzynski, Richard Hughes, Ryan Lortie, Sjoerd Simons, Stéphane Démurget, Sven Herzberg, Thomas Wood, Tomas Bzatek, Tomeu Vizoso, Torsten Schoenfeld, Tristan Van Berkom, Vincent Untz, Will Thompson, Xan Lopez, Yevgen Muntyan March 23, 2010 Matthias Clasen _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
