X-Git-Url: http://pileus.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.in;h=f8cec33f0030fb855b3e3e3877ef6aac46558a58;hb=4760b3e2bd07cf15cd350e1527ea1aebfb1b4581;hp=cf6b373bcf8ac45c76d276aae9be0b05ac211670;hpb=9e718150463e5810a9e1410a6c1f97efdb8ce594;p=~andy%2Fgtk diff --git a/README.in b/README.in index cf6b373bc..f8cec33f0 100644 --- a/README.in +++ b/README.in @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ 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.html Installation @@ -27,239 +27,27 @@ Installation See the file 'INSTALL' -Release notes for 2.12 -====================== - -* Functions: gtk_about_dialog_get/set_name() were deprecated in favour of - gtk_about_dialog_get/set_program_name(), the GtkAboutDialog now uses the - "program-name" property instead of the conflicting "name" property. - -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 - -* 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 +Release notes for 3.2 ===================== -* 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. +* 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. -* 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 +Release notes for 3.0 ===================== -* 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. - -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 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. - -* 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.