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Installation
============
See the file 'INSTALL'
-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_2fclipboard_2dmanager_2dspec
- 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
-
-* The icon theme code in GTK+ 2.6 follows the icon theme specification.
- Therefore, icon themes are looked for in $HOME/.icons, $XDG_DATA_HOME/icons,
- $XDG_DATA_DIRS/icons and /usr/share/pixmaps.
-
-* 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.
-
-* GTK+ uses a technique involving macros for reducing the amount of PLT
- redirections which has the side effect that the names of internally used
- GLib functions are prefixed with IA__. The g_return_if_fail() macros
- strip this prefix away, but it will show up e.g. in a debugger.
-
-* The linux framebuffer GDK backend included in the gdk/linux-fb of GTK+
- is provided on a as-is basis and has not been tested at all. No
- guarantees about the degree of workingness or about future
- compatibility are provided.
-
-* 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 of GTK+
- is provided on a as-is basis and has not been tested at all. No
- guarantees about the degree of workingness or about future
- compatibility are provided.
-
-* 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.
-
-How to report bugs
-==================
-
-Bugs should be reported to the GNOME bug tracking system.
-(http://bugzilla.gnome.org, product gtk+.) You will need to create an
-account for yourself.
-
-In the bug report please include:
-
-* Information about your system. For instance:
-
- - What operating system and version
- - What version of X
- - For Linux, what version of the C library
-
- And anything else you think is relevant.
-
-* How to reproduce the bug.
-
- If you can reproduce it with the testgtk program that is built in the
- gtk/ subdirectory, that will be most convenient. Otherwise, please
- include a short test program that exhibits the behavior. As a last
- resort, you can also provide a pointer to a larger piece of software
- that can be downloaded.
-* If the bug was a crash, the exact text that was printed out when the
- crash occured.
+Release notes for 3.0
+=====================
-* Further information such as stack traces may be useful, but is not
- necessary. If you do send a stack trace, and the error is an X error,
- it will be more useful if the stacktrace is produced running the test
- program with the --sync command line option.
+* GTK+ 3 is a major new version of GTK+, which is parallel installable
+ with GTK+ 2.x. For information about porting applications from GTK+ 2.x
+ to GTK+ 3, see the file:
-Patches
-=======
+ docs/reference/gtk/html/migrating.html
-Patches should also be submitted to bugzilla.gnome.org. If the patch
-fixes an existing bug, add the patch as an attachment to that bug
-report.
+ Or online at:
-Otherwise, enter a new bug report that describes the patch, and attach
-the patch to that bug report.
+ http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/3.0/migrating.html
-Bug reports containing patches should include the PATCH keyword in their
-keyword fields. If the patch adds to or changes the GTK programming
-interface, the API keyword should also be included.
-
-Patches should be in unified diff form. (The -u option to GNU diff.)
+* Note that the library sonames in this release have been changed from
+ libgtk-3.0 and libgdk-3.0 to libgtk-3 and libgdk-3, to prevent the
+ library versions from going backwards, compared to the 2.90/91/99
+ releases. Applications will have to be recompiled.