General Information
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-This is GTK+ version 2.3.6. GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for
+This is GTK+ version 2.4.0. 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.
Release notes
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+* 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.
+
* As compared to GTK+-1.2, the default configuration of GTK+-2 has been
stream-lined to reduce confusion on the part of new users or users
coming from other environments. Users used to older versions of
from the library, on others not. In no case can applications
use these private symbols.
-* GTK+-2.3 now requires version 2 of Xft; old fashioned core X
+* GTK+-2.4 now requires version 2 of Xft; old fashioned core X
fonts are no longer supported.
* There is a bug in the Xft library in XFree86-4.1 and possibly previous
* 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
+ 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_BROKEN_FILENAMES environment variable:
+ you may want to set the G_FILENAME_ENCODING environment variable:
- G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1
- export G_BROKEN_FILENAMES
+ G_FILENAME_ENCODING=@local
+ export G_FILENAME_ENCODING
- Best integration of GTK+-2.2 with the environment is achieved by
+ (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+-2.4 with the environment is achieved by
using a UTF-8 locale.
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