Tag: this week in gtk

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 29 commits, with 4744 lines added and 4340 lines removed.

Planning and Status

• GTK+ 3.21.3 was released
• Matthias continued to work on the portal branches of GLib and GTK+.
• William Hua is reworking the menu positioning API from bug 756579 following the hackfest discussion.
• Emmanuele pushed a new revision of the gsk branch.
• Carlos Soriano is working on a new pathbar implementation for the file chooser and nautilus.

Notable changes

• Emmanuele fixed some fallout in firefox from the GdkDrawingContext introduction.
• Ray Strode cleaned up some headerbar code and added support for expanding children
• Matthias fixed a crash in GtkColorChooser and another one in GtkInspector

Bugs fixed

• Bug 767851 – popover arrows broken in some orientations
• Bug 767849 – crash in focus handling
• Bug 724332 – GtkHeaderBar need to support an expand property
• Bug 768025 – entry.warning & entry.error broken

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.

In this last week, GTK+ has seen 20 commits, with 1852 lines added and 1234 lines removed.

Planning and Status

• With the GTK+ hackfest going on for most of the week, not much happened in the Git repository.
• Each day of the hackfest has its own notes on the wiki: 1, 2, 3, 4.
• The roadmap has been cleaned up and updated.

Notable changes

• Ray Strode worked on the GDK Wayland backend to ensure that it can be built and used with older Linux kernels without memfd support.
• Philip Chimento added the ability for GtkStyleContext hierarchies to include multiple contexts; this is the first step in allowing style contexts to cascade properly within childred of a widget.

Bugs fixed

• Bug 766341 – Do not rely on memfd as it requires a fairly recent kernel
• Bug 767766 – CUPS 2.X detected incorrectly by configure
• Bug 767795 – Warning when the “accelerator” property of GtkShortcutsShortcut is set to “less”
• Bug 751409 – gtk_style_context_add_provider() does not propagate to children
• Bug 767705 – GtkActionHelper: Change a message to a warning
• Bug 767468 – Popover over a treeview cellrenderer is hidden immediately after being shown

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.

In this last week, GTK+ has seen 35 commits, with 3140 lines added and 2353 lines removed.

Planning and Status

• The GTK+ hackfest starts today; topics include: CSS, layout management, portals for sandboxing, and GDK.
• Matthias Clasen and Alex Larsson are working on an initial implementation of the “portal” for opening files in a sandboxed application.

Notable changes

• Emmanuele Bassi merged his branch for simplifying the GdkWindow drawing entry points; this branch introduced a few new functions and a GdkDrawingContext class, while deprecating the old gdk_window_begin_paint* family of functions; gdk_window_end_paint(); gdk_cairo_create(); and gtk_widget_send_expose().
• Tristan Van Berkom worked on fixing the fallout from the introduction of the new content sizing properties in GtkScrolledWindow, and ensured that the sizing requests are consistent.

Bugs fixed

• Bug 767312 – gtk_widget_path_append_for_widget() misses classes unless gtk_widget_get_style_context() has been called
• Bug 79229 – GtkScale with a big number of digits and value pos set to GTK_POS_TOP/BOTTOM is panted incorrectly
• Bug 118959 – GtkScale value ‘-0’
• Bug 710471 – Make gtk_scrolled_window_remove() smart
• Bug 767310 – High-contrast theme doesn’t show focus rectangle in default button
• Bug 766860 – tiled (snapped, half-maximized) windows in Wayland aren’t GDK_WINDOW_STATE_TILED
  
• Bug 766675 – Add appropriate frame drawing API to GdkWindow

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.