This Week in GTK+ – 18

In this last week, the master branch of GTK+ has seen 33 commits, with 9362 lines added and 8025 lines removed.

Planning and status
  • Matthias released GTK+ 3.21.6, the last snapshot before the 3.22.0 release of September 21st.
  • The GTK+ road map is available on the wiki.
Notable changes
  • This week we had mostly translations for property descriptions and user-visibile messages, in preparation for the 3.22 release.
  • Ruslan fixed the GdkEventKey.is_modifier() structure field on Windows to report Ctrl, Alt, and Shift keys as modifiers.
  • Jonas Ådahl landed last minute fixes for combo boxes and other popups under Wayland.

Bugs fixed

  • 771117 gtk3 3.21.5 broke displaying drop-down lists, need to scroll to see contents
  • 771349 gdk_screen_get_monitor_scale_factor on X11 always returns 1 with GTK 3.21+
  • 771463 variable may be used uninitialized in gtk_widget_render
  • 602773 GdkEventKey.is_modifier is 0 for Shift, Ctrl, Alt keys
Getting involved

Interested in working on GTK+? Look at the list of bugs for newcomers and join the IRC channel #gtk+ on irc.gnome.org.