Author: Emmanuele Bassi

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.

In this last week, the master branch of GTK+ has seen 41 commits, with 19871 lines added and 16800 lines removed.

Planning and status

• The GTK+ road map is available on the wiki.

Notable changes

• Matthias added a --version command line switch to small binaries shipped with GTK+, like gtk-launch and gtk3-demo; this allows checking the version of GTK+ on the system without resorting to distribution packages or development files.
• The X11 backend of GDK now properly detects XRandR 1.5 support in VirtualBox.

Bugs fixed

• 767391 – cross-fade() not cross-fading
• 771033 – GtkStatusIcon cannot show activate menu in VirtualBox since 3.21.2
• 764979 – Connect to server is unusable after cancelling a password dialog
• 770278 – modernize example applications
• 770508 – [REGRESSION][BISECTED] Recent change in GtkTreeView::grab_focus_and_unset_draw_keyfocus() breaks shortcut assignment
• 770906 – Wayland: Unmapping a toplevel from a menu/popup can lead to a protocol error

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.

In this last week, the master branch of GTK+ has seen 32 commits, with 5125 lines added and 4393 lines removed.

Planning and status

• Matthias released GTK+ 3.21.5, likely the last developers snapshot before the 3.22.0 release.
• The GTK+ road map is available on the wiki.

Notable changes

• GTK+ requires version 1.7 of the Wayland protocols definitions, in order to use v6 of the xdg_shell protocol.
• GtkScrolledWindow can now optionally propagate the preferred natural size of its child to the parent.

Bugs fixed

• 770550 – gtkplacessidebar: fix signal marshal
• 770458 – GtkAboutDialog issue with long credit lists and GtkScrolledWindow
• 770307 – Crash when closing a glade project
• 770624 – [PATCHes] Fix typos.
• 770745 – wayland: Warn when an application tries to map popup incorrectly
• 769498 – Scrollbars are broken
• 770703 – Fix crash when using page-down on GtkListBox
• 770614 – GtkScale in HighContrast theme with value = 0: WARNING: allocates negative content width/height to node highlight
• 770849 – GtkLabel with padding brokenness
• 766569 – Better size requisition for GTK_SCROLL_NATURAL children

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.

In this last week, the master branch of GTK+ has seen 60 commits, with 10838 lines added and 6850 lines removed.

Planning and status

• We’re close to the GTK+ 3.22 release, in time for GNOME 3.22.
• Emmanuele has implemented a more comprehensive fallback path for mixed widget trees in his GSK branch.
• Timm Bäder has taken the initial port of the build system to Meson done at GUADEC by Jussi Pakkanen and improved upon it.
• The GTK+ road map is available on the wiki.

Notable changes

• Carlos Garnacho merged his branch that implements graphic tablet support for the Wayland GDK backend; more details are available on his blog.
• Jonas Ådahl ported GDK to the 6th version of the Wayland xdg_shell protocol, and he also fixed the behavior of transient-for windows created by sandbox portals on Wayland.

Bugs fixed

• 770236 – gtkbindings: Add an example for gtk_binding_entry_add_signal()
• 770026 – review comments for wip/wayland-tablet-v2
• 770332 – Notebook arrow icon wrong color after creating new tab
• 769937 – wayland: Port backend to use xdg-shell unstable v6
• 764413 – Wayland: not fullscreenable gtk+ apps can be fullscreened
• 770374 – Gtk Treeview Editable overshoots column width when column width is small
• 770550 – gtkplacessidebar: fix signal marshal
• 770458 – GtkAboutDialog issue with long credit lists and GtkScrolledWindow
• 769788 – Fix stacking order of flatpak portals on Wayland

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.

In these last two weeks, the master branch of GTK+ has seen 48 commits, with 4967 lines added and 3798 lines removed.

Planning and status

• We skipped last week’s update due to most of the GTK+ developers being at GUADEC.
• We had very productive discussions regarding the new release management and versioning scheme going forward; expect a full announcement on this blog.
• GSK has been reviewed during GUADEC, and the work on the conversion of widgets to the new retained rendering API is ongoing; the API won’t be merged for 3.22, in order to improve rendering performance, shake out the last API issues found during porting, and especially avoid last minute breaking of applications using their own rendering on top of GTK+ windows, like Firefox and LibreOffice.
• Carlos Garnacho has been porting the Wayland backend to the new tablet protocol; various changes have already landed in master, and the bulk of the review process is in bug 770026.
• The work to support HiDPI displays in the Windows backend is progressing in bug 768081.
• The GTK+ road map is available on the wiki.

Notable changes

• Andreas Pokorny has been updating the Mir backend for GDK to improve the integration of GTK+ applications.
• Timm Bäder added two new methods to GtkPopover, gtk_popover_popup() and gtk_popover_popdown(); these two new methods implement animated transitions, while calling gtk_widget_show() and gtk_widget_hide() will immediately show or hide the GtkPopover. With the addition of these two new methods, the GtkPopover:transitions-enabled property is now redundant and has been deprecated.

Bugs fixed

• 769603 – gtk+-3.20.8: underlink issue with ld.gold – build fails: ./.libs/libgdk-3.so: error: undefined reference to ‘shm_open’
• 769601 – Dead link in faq on gtk-question-index.html
• 769568 – Modification date display incorrectly wraps calendar days (and is inconsistent with GTK2 and Nautilus)
• 768138 – Update the GDK-Mir backend to fix a few problems
• 769706 – Add show/hide API to GtkPopover
• 769402 – regression in menu positioning on wayland
• 768017 – [Wayland] menus opened from access keys (mnemonic menu items) hide instantly

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.

In this last week, the master branch of GTK+ has seen 29 commits, with 4141 lines added and 3230 lines removed.

Planning and status

• The GTK+ team is gearing up for GUADEC; there will be two talks related to GTK+, one from Benjamin and one from Emmanuele. We’ll also have our usual BoF session on the 15th.
• Emmanuele and Matthias have been at work porting widgets to GSK render nodes, and figuring out the details of the API.
• The GTK+ road map is available on the wiki.

Notable changes

• Ruslan Izhbulatov fixed two long standing issues with the keyboard layout and dead keys handling on Windows. GTK+ applications on Windows should now behave more in line with the rest of the platform, especially on US international keyboards. The changes have been applied to the master branch, but after further testing they should be backported to the 2.x stable branch.

Bugs fixed

• 769287 – GtkMenuToolButton:show-menu is emitted twice and breaks dynamic menus
• 769485 – Eliminate use of g_test_expect_message()
• 712760 – Clang static analysis fixes
• 769451 – Build failure of 3.21 (master) in Debian Unstable since 7-26-2016

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.

In this last week, the master branch of GTK+ has seen 28 commits, with 1868 lines added and 1422 lines removed.

Planning and status

• The GTK+ road map is available on the wiki.

Notable changes

• Georges Basile Stavracas Neto has made the formerly private GtkShortcutLabel widget, used by the shortcuts window, part of the public API; the widget will be used in the GNOME Control Center keyboard options, and can be used by applications that allow editing their own keyboard shortcuts, like PiTiVi.

Bugs fixed

• 768999 – Floating point exception (division by zero) when running under Xvfb
• 768930 – reftests: override GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR when running tests
• 760944 – resizing and geometry (snap to character cells) regressed with Gtk 3.19+
• 755947 – wayland: gnome-terminal does not fill entire area when tiled
• 769047 – GtkWidget <-> GtkStyleContext API not clear
• 769205 – Expose GtkShortcutLabel as a public widget
• 769004 – css test suite failures in 3.21.4
• 768902 – Font too small when using gtk_widget_override_font()
• 769126 – Can’t type astral plane characters into a GtkEntry using the Windows 10 touch keyboard
• 769236 – demos: Fix build failure

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.

In this last week, the master branch of GTK+ has seen 22 commits, with 6199 lines added and 1763 lines removed.

Planning and status

• Matthias Clasen released GTK+ 3.21.4 and GLib 2.49.4, two new developers’ snapshots.

Notable changes

• William Hua started merging the patches for relative positioning of menus and popups in the master branch.
• Lapo Calamandrei did a small visual refresh of the styling of GtkCalendar in Adwaita.
• Carlos Garnacho updated GDK to use the 2.0 version of the Wayland graphics tablet input protocol.
• Matthias Clasen updated GTK+ to opt into the new structured logging API provided by GLib.

 

Bugs fixed

• 769003 – Adwaita: GtkCalendar uses a confusing style for week of year
• 756579 – GTK should let GDK position menus

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.

In this last week, the master branch of GTK+ has seen 16 commits, with 2500 lines added and 2092 lines removed.

Planning and status

• Jonas Ådahl and William Hua are working on the feature branch that provides a new, declarative API for positioning popups and menus; you can read about it in the blog post that was published last Friday, as well as on bug 756579.

Notable changes

• Matthias Clasen merged the patches, written by Philip Withnall, that implement a structured logging API in GLib. This work is still ongoing.

Bugs fixed

• 768657 – places-view: fix open action for locations without a mount or volume
• 768659 – gtk/gtkfilechoosernativeportal.c: Don’t use g_autoptr()
• 768756 – GtkFileChooserNativePortal uses incorrect response id

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.

In this last week, the master branch of GTK+ has seen 26 commits, with 2416 lines added and 180 lines removed.

Planning and status

• Emmanuele Bassi is working on his GSK rendering branch, and Alex Larsson gave an initial review. Emmanuele also wrote a blog post on his GSK work.
• The discussion on the release strategy is still going on on gtk-devel-list; opinions are still welcome.
• William Hua has been rebasing his branch on the new, Wayland and Mir ready popup positioning API, which replaces positioning via global coordinates.

Notable changes

• Matthias Clasen landed the “portals” implementation for negotiating access to resources outside of a sandbox in both GLib and GTK+. You can read more about it on his blog.

Bugs fixed

• 768485 – Change the priority of the window-close idle to G_PRIORITY_DEFAULT
• 768499 – portal support for gtk+
• 768546 – Wrong documentation for the “move-viewport” signal of GtkTextView

Get Involved

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