General Information
===================
-This is GTK+ version @GTK_VERSION@. 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.
+This is GTK+ version @GTK_VERSION@. 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.
GTK+ is free software and part of the GNU Project. However, the
licensing terms for GTK+, the GNU LGPL, allow it to be used by all
-developers, including those developing proprietary software, without
-any license fees or royalties.
+developers, including those developing proprietary software, without any
+license fees or royalties.
-The official ftp site is:
+The official download locations are:
ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk
+ http://download.gnome.org/sources/gtk+
The official web site is:
http://www.gtk.org/
Information about mailing lists can be found at
- http://www.gtk.org/mailinglists.html
+ http://www.gtk.org/mailing-lists.php
+
Installation
============
See the file 'INSTALL'
+
How to report bugs
==================
-Bugs should be reported to the GNOME bug tracking system.
-(http://bugzilla.gnome.org, product gtk+.) You will need
+Bugs should be reported to the GNOME bug tracking system.
+(http://bugzilla.gnome.org, product glib.) 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.
+* 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
+ If you can reproduce it with one of the test programs that are built
+ in the tests/ 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.
* 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.
+ is not necessary.
+
Patches
=======
Otherwise, enter a new bug report that describes the patch,
and attach the patch to that bug report.
-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.)
+Patches should be in unified diff form. (The -up option to GNU diff.)
+
+
+Release notes for 3.6
+=====================
+
+* The accessibility bridge code that exports accessible objects
+ on the bus is now used by default; atk-bridge has been converted
+ into a library that GTK+ links against. To void the linking,
+ pass --without-atk-bridge when configuring GTK+.
+
+* GDK threading support has been deprecated. It is recommended to
+ use g_idle_add(), g_main_context_invoke() and similar funtions
+ to make all GTK+ calls from the main thread.
+
+* GTK+ now follows the XDG Base Directory specification for
+ user configuration and data files. In detail,
+ * $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtk-3.0/custom-papers is the new location
+ for $HOME/.gtk-custom-papers
+ * $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtk-3.0/bookmarks is the new location
+ for $HOME/.gtk-bookmarks
+ * $XDG_DATA_HOME/themes is preferred over $HOME/.themes
+ * $XDG_DATA_HOME/icons is preferred over $HOME/.icons.
+ Existing files from the old location will still be read
+ if the new location does not exist.
+
+* $HOME/.gtk-3.0 is no longer in the default module load path.
+ If you want to load modules from there, add it to the GTK_PATH
+ environment variable.
+
+Release notes for 3.4
+=====================
+
+* Scroll events have been separated from button events, and smooth
+ scrolling has been added with a separate event mask. Widgets now
+ need to have either GDK_SCROLL_MASK or GDK_SMOOTH_SCROLL_MASK in
+ their event mask to receive scroll events. In addition, the
+ GdkScrollDirection enumeration has gained a new member,
+ GDK_SCROLL_SMOOTH, so switch statements will have to be amended
+ to cover this case.
+
+* GTK+ now uses <Primary> instead of <Control> in keyboard accelerators,
+ for improved cross-platform handling. This should not affect
+ applications, unless they parse or create these accelerator
+ manually.
+
+* The tacit assumption that the Alt key corresponds to the MOD1
+ modifier under X11 is now a hard requirement.
+
+* The beagle search backend for the file chooser has been dropped.
+ Tracker is the only supported search backend on Linux now.
+
+* GtkNotebook has been changed to destroy its action widgets when
+ it gets destroyed itself. If your application is using action
+ widgets in notebooks, you may have to adjust your code to take
+ this into account.
+
+* GtkApplication no longer uses the gtk mainloop wrappers, so
+ it is no longer possible to use gtk_main_quit() to stop it.
+
+* The -uninstalled variants of the pkg-config files have been dropped.
+
+* Excessive dependencies have been culled from Requires: lines
+ in .pc files. Dependent modules may have to declare dependencies
+ that there were getting 'for free' in the past.
+
+
+Release notes for 3.2
+=====================
+
+* The accessible implementations for GTK+ widgets have been integrated
+ into libgtk itself, and the gail module does not exist anymore. This
+ change should not affect applications very much.
+
+Release notes for 3.0
+=====================
+
+* 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:
+
+ docs/reference/gtk/html/migrating.html
+
+ Or online at:
+
+ http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/3.0/migrating.html
+
+* 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.