This week in GTK+ – 32

In this last week, the master branch of GTK+ has seen 106 commits, with 7340 lines added and 12138 lines removed.

Planning and status

• Matthias Clasen released GTK+ 3.89.3
• The GTK+ road map is available on the wiki.

Notable changes

On the master branch:

• Benjamin Otte simplified the clipping shaders for the Vulkan renderers
• Benjamin also removed the “assume numbers without dimensions are pixels” fallback code from the CSS parser
• Daniel Boles landed various fixes to the GtkMenu, GtkComboBox and GtkScale widgets
• Daniel also simplified the internals of GtkComboBox and moved most of its internal widgets to GtkBuilder UI files
• Matthias Clasen removed command line argument handling from the GTK+ initialization functions; gtk_init() now takes no arguments. Additionally, gdk_init() has been removed, as GDK ceased to be a separate shared library. The recommended way to write GTK+ applications remains using GtkApplication, which handles library initialization and the main loop
• Timm Bäder merged his branch that makes GtkWidget visible by default, except for the GtkWindow and GtkPopover classes; Timm also removed gtk_widget_show_all() from the API, as it’s not useful any more
• Timm modified GtkShortcutsShortcut, GtkFileChooserButton, and GtkFontButton to inherit directly from GtkWidget, taking advantage of the new scene graph API inside the base GtkWidget class

On the gtk-3-22 stable branch:

• Ruslan Izhbulatov fixed the Windows backend for GDK to ensure that it works with remote displays

Bugs fixed

• 777527 – GDK W32: Invisible drop-down menus in GTK apps when working via RDP
• 770112 – The documented <alt>left shortcut doesn’t work on Wayland
• 776225 – [wayland] dropdown placed somewhere in the screen
• 777363 – [PATCH] wayland: avoid an unnecessary g_list_length call

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.