-Release notes
-=============
-
-* GTK+ 2.6 supports clipboard persistency. To make use of this feature,
- a clipboard manager following the specification at
- http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/clipboard-manager-spec
- must be running. A sample implementation of such a clipboard manager
- is available at
- http://people.imendio.com/andersca/archives/clipboard-manager-0.3.tar.gz
- Applications can use the function gdk_display_supports_clipboard_persistence()
- to find out if clipboard persistence is available.
-
-* Notification on clipboard ownership changes via GdkOwnerChange events
- requires the XFIXES X extension. Applications can use the function
- gdk_display_supports_selection_notification() to find out if ownerchip
- change notification is available.
-
-* The icon theme code in GTK+ 2.6 follows the freedesktop.org icon theme
- specification. Setting the XDG_DATA_DIRS environtment variable may be
- necessary if your icons aren't installed in the default location
- /usr/share/icons.
-
-* The icon theme code in GTK+ 2.6 can make use of mmap()able cache files
- to avoid a lot of disk searching overhead. GTK+ includes a utility named
- gtk-update-icon-cache to generate these cache files. For further details,
- see the gtk-update-icon-cache man page or the GTK+ documentation.
-
-* To reduce code size and improve efficiency, GTK+, when compiled
- with the GNU toolchain, has separate internal and external entry
- points for exported functions. The internal names, which begin with
- IA__, may be seen when debugging a GTK+ program.
-
-* The following functions have been deprecated in GTK+ 2.6:
- gdk_pango_context_set_colormap
- gtk_cell_renderer_editing_canceled
-
-* The new GtkFileChooser widget emphasizes simplicity and thus does
- not provide a navigation entry by default when opening files.
- Experienced command line users will likely want to make heavy use of
- the location dialog brought up by the Control-L key shortcut.
-
-* The GTK+ libraries use an '_' prefix to indicate private symbols that
- must not be used by applications. On some platforms, symbols beginning
- with prefixes such as _gtk, _gdk, and _pango will be exported
- from the library, on others not. In no case can applications
- use these private symbols. In addition to that, GTK+ 2.6 makes several
- symbols private which were not in any installed header files and
- were never intended to be exported.
-
-* The gdk_pixbuf_xlib library included in the contrib/ directory
- and the framebuffer GDK backend included in the gdk/linux-fb directory
- of GTK+ are provided on an as-is basis and have not been tested at all.
- No guarantees about the degree of workingness or about future
- compatibility are provided.
-
-* On Unix, the assumption of GLib and GTK+ by default is that filenames on
- the filesystem are encoded in UTF-8 rather than the encoding of the locale;
- the GTK+ developers consider that having filenames whose interpretation
- depends on the current locale is fundamentally a bad idea.
-
- If you have filenames encoded in the encoding of your locale, then you
- may want to set the G_FILENAME_ENCODING environment variable:
-
- G_FILENAME_ENCODING=@local
- export G_FILENAME_ENCODING
-
- (Earlier versions of GLib 2.x required a different environment variable
- setting; G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1 to achieve the same effect; this
- is still supported, but G_FILENAME_ENCODING is preferred.)
- Best integration of GTK+ 2.6 with the environment is achieved by
- using a UTF-8 locale.
-
- On Windows, filenames passed to GTK+ should always be in UTF-8, as
- in GLib 2.6. This is different than in previous versions of GTK+
- where the system codepage was used. As in GLib, for DLL ABI
- stability, applications built against previous versions of GTK+ will
- use entry points providing the old semantics.
-
- When compiling against GTK+ 2.6, applications intended to be
- portable to Windows must take the UTF-8 file name encoding into
- consideration, and use the gstdio wrappers to access files whose
- names have been constructed from strings returned from GTK+ or GLib.
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