Category: Unstable

GTK+ 2.15.0 unstable release

This is the first development release leading up to GTK+ 2.16.

Overview of changes between 2.14.x and 2.15.0:

  • GtkFileChooser
    • Optionally shows file sizes
    • Mounts volumes when necessary
    • Picks better mime icons
  • GtkEntry
    • Can show icons at either side of the entry, which can be made clickable, drag sources, etc
    • Can show progress information
    • Picks the best available placeholder character for invisible entries unless it is explicitly set. See the invisible-char-set property
    • Input methods work again in invisible entries
    • Invisible entries can optionally display a caps-lock warning. This can be turned off with the caps-lock-warning property
  • GtkStatusIcon
  • GtkLinkButton
    • Respects user-defined tooltips
    • Has a default url hook
  • GtkBuilder
    • Can construct menus
    • Can associate accel groups with windows
    • Child properties can now be translatable, e.g. GtkAssistant::page-title
  • GtkOrientable
    • A new interface implemented by all widgets that have horizontal and vertical variants
    • Printing support
    • Print-to-file can save to non-local files
    • Page rendering can be deferred to a thread to avoid blocking the mainloop
  • GDK
    • GdkKeymap emits a state-changed signal when the Caps Lock state changes
  • Newly deprecated functions:
    • gdk_window_get_toplevels(),
    • gtk_font_selection_dialog_get_apply_button(),
    • gtk_status_icon_set_tooltip(),
    • gtk_toolbar_set_orientation()
  • Changes that are relevant for theme authors
    • The GtkMenu::arrow-placement style property allow more space efficient layout of scrolling menus
    • Submenu arrows can be scaled relative to the font size, with the
    • GtkMenuItem::arrow-scaling style property
    • Themes can set the GtkDialog::content-area-spacing style property to change the spacing between elements of the content area
    • The GtkEntry::state-hint style property can be used to make GTK+ pass the correct state when drawing the background of entries
    • The GtkEntry::prelight style property can be used to suppress prelighting of icons in entries on mouse-over
  • Changes that are relevant for translators
    • GTK+ has been switched to use the two-argument C_() macro instead of Q_() for messages with context

Read the original announcement for more information including bug fixes and download locations.

GLib 2.19.1 unstable release

This is the second development release leading up to GLib 2.20.

Overview of Changes from GLib 2.19.0 to GLib 2.19.1

  • g_icon_to_string, g_icon_new_for_string: GIcon serialization support
  • G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_PREVIEW_ICON: new file attribute for preview images
  • g_app_info_get_commandline: new function to get the full commandline
  • g_mount_shadow, g_mount_unshadow, g_mount_is_shadowed: New
  • functions to ‘shadow’ mounts (i.e. hide them from the UI when they already have a different representation, like a bookmark)

42 bugs fixed in this release.

Read the original announcement for more info and downloads.

GLib 2.19.0 unstable release

This is the first development release leading up to GLib 2.20.

Overview of Changes from GLib 2.18.1 to GLib 2.19.0

  • Rewrite GHashTable to use open addressing with quadratic probing instead of chaining. This has the potential to reduce memory fragmentation significantly, while being slightly faster due to better locality and no need to call alloc/free functions for nodes. Benchmarks suggest it also uses less memory overall.
  • Make g_poll available as public api
  • New macros g_assert_error and g_assert_no_error to assert that a GError is set or unset
  • g_cancellable_make_pollfd: New method to make a GPollFD for a cancellable
  • g_app_info_can_delete, g_app_info_delete, g_app_info_reset_type_associations: New functions to clean up app infos and content types
  • When launching applications, always pass fuse file:// uris when possible, and let gio convert such uris back to gio uris.

33 bugs fixed in this release!

Read the original announcement for more info and downloads.

Pango-1.21.4 unstable release

Pango-1.21.4 is now available for download

pango-1.21.4.tar.bz2
md5sum: 75f8dea346a160f8f45c47cd30e6ab3b

pango-1.21.4.tar.gz
md5sum: 3a12cb5a7f2dc562aab415d764810f4e

Overview changes from 1.21.3

  • Use cairo_show_text_glyphs() if target cairo surface supports that. This is done by adding a new PangoRenderer method, draw_glyph_item(). Custom PangoRenderer implementations that delegate to pango_cairo may want to implement this method if they target PDF files.
  • Requires cairo >= 1.7.4 now
  • Win32 build improvements
  • Justify lines broken by U+2028 LINE SEPARATOR
  • Various small fixes and improvements
  • New API additions. You can read more about them in the original announcement.

11 bugs fixed in this release!

GTK+ 2.13.6 unstable release

This is the seventh development release leading up to GTK+ 2.14.

gtk+-2.13.6.tar.bz2
md5sum: d9b3455d4639d44073abd1fb89d0c7b9

gtk+-2.13.6.tar.gz
md5sum: 14374de5407df1e794324c87d1634363

Overview of Changes from GTK+ 2.13.5

  • Fix problems on 64-bit Windows
  • Fix a long-standing, well-known problem with the handling of insensitive buttons, bug 56070
  • Fallback to Xinerama if the Xrandr implementation is just a stub
  • gdk_threads_add_timeout_seconds[_full]: New functions with second-granularity to complete the set of gdk_threads_ timeout functions
  • Support rendering icons with emblems specified as GEmblemedIcon
  • GtkFileChooser has a GFile-oriented API now, functions for creating filechoosers with specific backends have been deprecated, since GIO is used directly.
  • GtkAdjustment has been sealed, adding getters and setters for all struct fields.

30 bugs fixed in this release!