X-Git-Url: http://pileus.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.in;h=b5d9f30fe448b3ae2c58354859efba1f06b5bc48;hb=c4ccfa6009841307c690caf6dc280470add4de81;hp=06318a0f85a49cb454eb0608fae07c4dce841533;hpb=80ee413123fe183ceea14b91db9c93554cb2d6eb;p=~andy%2Fgtk diff --git a/README.in b/README.in index 06318a0f8..b5d9f30fe 100644 --- a/README.in +++ b/README.in @@ -11,183 +11,152 @@ 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. -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' -Release notes for 2.10 -====================== - -* The hexadecimal Unicode input feature has been reworked. It no longer - blocks the use of the sixteen Ctrl-Shift- 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 - -* Suffixes 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. - -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=@locale - 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. 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. - +(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 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 you can reproduce it with one of the tests or demos built with GTK+, - such as demos/gtk-demo/gtk-demo, that would 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. -* 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. -* 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. Patches ======= -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. +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. + +Otherwise, enter a new bug report that describes the patch, +and attach the patch to that bug report. + +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 instead of 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: -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.