See the file 'INSTALL'
-GTK+-2.0.0 Specific Notes
-=========================
+Release notes
+=============
-* The default configuration of GTK+ 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 GTK+ may want to make
- some adjustments to the default configuration.
+* 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
+ GTK+ may want to make some adjustments to the default configuration.
- Emacs keybindings such as Control-A and Control-E to move to the
ends of lines are not enabled by default in the editing widgets. To
to your ~/.gtkrc-2.0
* The GTK+ libraries use an '_' prefix to indicate private symbols that
- must not be used by applications. The intention was not to export
- symbols beginning with prefixes such as _gtk, _gdk, and _pango from
- the libraries at all, but due to a bug in libtool, they are actually
- exported at the moment on some platforms (including Linux).
- Applications that use these private symbols _will_ break when
- this bug is fixed.
-
-* The Xft library that GTK+ uses to display anti-aliased fonts will
- undergo a major version revision in the next few months. To deal with
- this, by default, GTK+ and Pango are built so that applications will
- not have explicit dependencies on version 1 on Xft. To make sure that
- your application will be binary compatible with future versions of
- GTK+:
+ 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.
+
+* GTK+-2.2 can be build either with Pango-1.0 and version 1 of
+ the Xft library or Pango-1.2 and version 2 of the Xft library
+ (Xft is used to to display anti-aliased fonts) By default, GTK+ and
+ Pango are built so that applications will not have explicit dependencies
+ on either version of Xft. To make sure that your application will be
+ binary compatible with future versions of GTK+:
- Do not configure Pango or GTK+ with the --enable-static or
- --enable-explicit otions, since they will cause dependencies on
- Xft version 1.
+ --enable-explicit-deps options, since they will cause dependencies
+ on the particular version of Xft.
- - Do not use Xft directly in your applicatons.
+ - Do not use Xft version 1 directly in your applications.
* There is a bug in the Xft library in XFree86-4.1 and possibly previous
versions that causes random crashes when using the Pango Xft
backend. If you want to use Xft fonts, you should upgrade to
XFree86-4.2.
-* Xft support is not on by default. To turn it on set the environment
- variable GDK_USE_XFT to '1'
+* Xft support is on by default when using Xft2 but off by
+ default when using Xft1. To change this default, set the
+ variable GDK_USE_XFT to '1' or '0'. For instance, to
+ turn on Xft fonts when Xft1.
GDK_USE_XFT=1
export GDK_USE_XFT
guarantees about the degree of workingness or about future
compatibility are provided.
-* There are known problems with some of the image loaders in the
- gdk-pixbuf library included in GTK+ where corrupted images can cause
- crashes and conceivably worse problems. Until these problems are fixed
- (we hope to have this done for 2.0.1), gdk-pixbuf should not be used
- to load untrusted data.
+* While efforts have been made to make gdk-pixbuf robust against
+ invalid images, using gdk-pixbuf to load untrusted data
+ is not recommended, due to the likelyhood that there are
+ additional problems where an invalid image could cause
+ gdk-pixbuf to crash or worse.
* 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;
G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1
export G_BROKEN_FILENAMES
- Best integration of GTK+-2.0 with the environment is achieved by
+ Best integration of GTK+-2.2 with the environment is achieved by
using a UTF-8 locale.
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