General Information
===================
-This is GTK+ version 2.7.0. GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for
+This is GTK+ version 2.10.1. GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for
creating graphical user interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets,
GTK+ is suitable for projects ranging from small one-off projects to
complete application suites.
Information about mailing lists can be found at
http://www.gtk.org/mailinglists.html
+
Installation
============
See the file 'INSTALL'
-Release notes
-=============
+
+Release notes for 2.10
+======================
+
+* The hexadecimal Unicode input feature has been reworked. It no longer
+ blocks the use of the sixteen Ctrl-Shift-<hex digit> key sequences. Now
+ it only uses Ctrl-Shift-u.
+
+* A memory leak in GtkStyle handling has been fixed. This may expose bugs
+ in third-party widgets which forget to call gtk_style_attach() in their
+ realize functions.
+
+* Range widgets like GtkScrollbar now render their arrows insensitive
+ when the slider is at the end. Applications which react to arrow
+ clicks even if the slider is at the end may want to use the new
+ gtk_range_set_[upper/lower]_stepper_sensitivity() functions to
+ prevent the arrows from being rendered insensitive.
+
+* GtkObject now uses the "floating reference" support in GObject.
+ GTK_OBJECT_IS_FLOATING() will still work, but direct checking
+ of the GTK_FLOATING flag will no longer detect the floating
+ reference. Details about floating references can be found in the docs:
+ http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gobject/gobject-The-Base-Object-Type.html#floating-ref
+
+* Accelerators like (_F) are now stripped from labels when they are
+ displayed in toolbars. If this is not wanted, the feature can be
+ suppressed by inserting a Unicode control character, e.g ZWNJ.
+
+* The pixbuf theme engine can now customize expanders (in GtkTreeView
+ and GtkExpander) and resize grips, using the new EXPANDER and
+ RESIZE_GRIP function values.
+
+* Dialogs created by gtk_about_dialog_new() no longer hide automatically
+ when the user clicks close. It is the applications responsibility to
+ hide or destroy the dialog.
+
+* Several new signals have been added to GtkNotebook. Care has been taken
+ to choose signal names which do not collide with signals added by well-known
+ derived classes. The names which can no longer be used for signals in
+ objects derived from GtkNotebook are page-reordered, page-removed and
+ page-added.
+
+* Due to the interface changes in the file chooser backend interface,
+ the GTK+ ABI version has been bumped to 2.10.0. Third-party filesystem
+ backends have to be ported to the new interface, other modules, such as
+ theme engines, input method modules or pixbuf loaders have to be rebuilt
+ so that they are installed in the right place for GTK+ to find them.
+
+
+Release notes for 2.8
+=====================
+
+* GTK+ 2.8 and Pango 1.10 require the cairo library.
+
+* The default theme has been renamed to "Raleigh". Existing configurations
+ specifying the "Default" theme name should still work.
+
+* The GtkTreeView::enable-search property has been changed to control
+ only typeahead search, not the C-f keybinding to start an interactive
+ search. To turn off interactive searching completely, you have to
+ set GtkTreeView::search-column to -1.
+
+* The restriction on using the same cell renderer in multiple columns
+ of a GtkTreeView is now more strictly enforced.
+
+* In GTK+ 2.8, GtkCalendar uses nl_langinfo() (if available) to determine
+ the first day of the week. Thus, it is possible to select the first day
+ of the week independently from the language, by setting LC_TIME.
+
+* In GTK+ 2.8, the gtk-update-icon-cache utility includes image data
+ in the icon caches, which will make the icon cache files larger than
+ the one produced by GTK+ 2.6. This change will reduce the memory
+ overhead of icon themes at runtime, since all GTK+ applications can
+ share the image data in memory.
+
+* In 2.8, GDK emits GdkEventGrabBroken events when a keyboard or pointer
+ grab is broken. On X11, this can happen if the same application grabs
+ again, or if the window used for the grab becomes unviewable. It happens
+ more often on Win32. Applications which use grabs should pay attention
+ to these events and do the necessary cleanups when the grab is lost.
+* The GIOChannel code for sockets on win32 has been rewritten.
+ Applications who make non-trivial use of GIOChannels on win32 should
+ be watched for possible problems.
+
+* GLib 2.8 uses atomic operations to implement reference counting, thus
+ g_object_ref/unref, g_closure_ref/sink/unref and g_iochannel_ref/unref
+ can be used without locking in multithreaded applications. Note that
+ other modifications, like concurrent setting of properties still require
+ locking.
+
+* g_convert() and related character set conversion functions have been
+ fixed to emit pending shift states and to not cache iconv descriptors
+ across multiple calls, since that is problematic for some encodings.
+ Note that these functions are not suitable for streaming conversions;
+ use g_iconv() to do streaming conversion.
+
+
+Release notes for 2.6
+=====================
* GTK+ 2.6 supports clipboard persistency. To make use of this feature,
a clipboard manager following the specification at
consideration, and use the gstdio wrappers to access files whose
names have been constructed from strings returned from GTK+ or GLib.
+
How to report bugs
==================
it will be more useful if the stacktrace is produced running the test
program with the --sync command line option.
+
Patches
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projects / ~andy / gtk / blobdiff