This Week in GTK+ – 4

In this last week, GTK+ has seen 55 commits, with 2378 lines added and 1493 lines removed.

Planning and Status
  • Carlos Soriano has been working on further experiments on the new path bar widget in various topic branches.
  • Emmanuele Bassi has been working on a new API for simplifying the drawing entry points inside GtkWidget, in preparation for the new rendering API inside GSK.
Notable changes
  • Timm Bäder added an accessible representation for GtkStack to only show the current visible child in accessibility tools.
  • Matthias Clasen added a warning in case we emit the GtkWidget::draw call on a widget without an allocation; this is not supposed to happen, and a warning allows tracking badly behaving widgets.
  • Lapo Calamandrei fixed Adwaita with regards to menu items, info bars, and the caret color of selectable lables.
  • Matthias Clasen deprecated the GtkSizeGroup:ignore-hidden property, and documented it as broken; sizing of invisible widgets is not really possible, as they lack access to windowing system and style resources. It is recommended to use a GtkStack, instead, to reserve space for hidden widgets.
  • A new GDK device source type, GDK_SOURCE_TRACKPOINT, has been added to represent Trackpoint/point stick pointing devices; this new device type can be used to implement device-specific behavior in widgets.
  • CSS text styling properties can now be used on the value and marks of a GtkScale and GtkProgressbar widgets.
  • Georges Basile Stavracas Neto implemented the max-content-width and max-content-height properties in GtkScrolledWindow; Tristan Van Berkom fixed long-standing sizing issues with the existing min-content-width and min-content-height properties.
Bugs fixed
  • Bug 745622 – Selected text not highlighted in GtkInfoBar
  • Bug 767058 – GtkInfoBar: right-click/context menu all white
  • Bug 767052 – Wayland: Iconifying a modal dialog makes the app unusable
  • Bug 767100 – Add an input source type for trackpoints
  • Bug 767108 – Separators not correctly placed in GtkPopover
  • Bug 767093 – wayland: Provide information about scroll devices
  • Bug 753202 – change cursor for click scrolling
  • Bug 767165 – Update docs for availability of GDK_GRAB_FAILED
  • Bug 742281 – GtkScrolledWindow should have max-content-height and max-content-width properties
  • Bug 674215 – regression with updating tooltips
  • Bug 556254 – Test properties of type GObject in the ‘object’ test
  • Bug 708148 – gtk_tree_view_get_path_at_pos mistakenly identifies column of initial pixels
  • Bug 765595 – Modal popover does not close when focus leaves it
  • Bug 766569 – Better size requisition for GTK_SCROLL_NATURAL children
  • Bug 767238 – Fix long standing regression in min-content-width/min-content-height
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