http://developer.gnome.org
-including information about using Subversion with GNOME:
+Information about using git with GNOME can be found here:
- http://developer.gnome.org/tools/svn.html
+ http://live.gnome.org/GitMigration
-In order to get SVN gtk+ installed on your system, you need to have
-the most recent SVN versions of glib, pango, and atk installed as well.
+In order to get GIT gtk+ installed on your system, you need to have
+the most recent GIT versions of glib, pango, and atk installed as well.
The installation process of these libraries is similar to that of gtk+, but
needs to be fulfilled prior to installation of gtk+.
-If at all possible, please use SVN to get the latest development version of
-gtk+ and glib. You can do the following to get glib and gtk+ from SVN:
+If at all possible, please use GIT to get the latest development version of
+gtk+ and glib. You can do the following to get glib and gtk+ from GIT:
- $ svn checkout http://svn.gnome.org/svn/glib/trunk glib
- $ svn checkout http://svn.gnome.org/svn/pango/trunk pango
- $ svn checkout http://svn.gnome.org/svn/atk/trunk atk
- $ svn checkout http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gtk+/trunk gtk+
+ $ git clone git://git.gnome.org/glib
+ $ git clone git://git.gnome.org/pango
+ $ git clone git://git.gnome.org/atk
+ $ git clone git://git.gnome.org/gtk+
-To compile the SVN version of gtk+ on your system, you will need to take
+To compile the GIT version of gtk+ on your system, you will need to take
several steps to setup the tree for compilation. You can do all these
steps at once by running:
gtk+$ ./autogen.sh
-
+
Basically this does the following for you:
gtk+$ aclocal; automake; autoconf
The above commands create the `configure' script. Now you
-run the `configure' script in `gtk+/' to create all Makefiles.
+run the `configure' script in `gtk+/' to create all Makefiles.
More information about that in `INSTALL'.
-Before running `autogen.sh' or `configure', make sure you have libtool
-in your path.
+Before running `autogen.sh' or `configure', make sure you have libtool
+in your path.
Note that autogen.sh runs configure for you. If you wish to pass
options like `--prefix=/usr' to `configure' you can give those options
to `autogen.sh' and they will be passed on to `configure'.
-For information about submitting patches and committing changes
-to SVN, see the `README' and `README.commits' files. In particular,
-don't, under any circumstances, commit anything to SVN before
+For information about submitting patches and pushing changes
+to GIT, see the `README' and `README.commits' files. In particular,
+don't, under any circumstances, push anything to GIT before
reading and understanding `README.commmits'.
range [lower, upper - page_size]. This has always been the documented
behaviour, and the recommended practice is to set page_size to 0
when using adjustments for simple scalar values, like in a slider
- or spin button.
+ or spin button.
* gdk-pixbuf will use GIO for mime type detection if possible. For
this to work, shared-mime-info needs to be installed and XDG_DATA_DIRS
* The gtk_notebook_set/get_group_id() functions were found to be insufficient
and have been deprecated in favour of gtk_notebook_set/get_group().
-* The move-focus signal has been moved to GtkWidget, to unify the
- various implementations of this signal in specific widgets. Great care
+* The move-focus signal has been moved to GtkWidget, to unify the
+ various implementations of this signal in specific widgets. Great care
has been taken to make sure that all code using this signal continues
to work.
-* An unused and hardly visible GtkFrame has been removed from the menu
- widget hierarchy when GtkComboBox::appears-as-list style property is
- set. Any RC file applying a different style to any widget below the
- widget path "gtk-combobox-popup-window.GtkFrame" should take into
+* An unused and hardly visible GtkFrame has been removed from the menu
+ widget hierarchy when GtkComboBox::appears-as-list style property is
+ set. Any RC file applying a different style to any widget below the
+ widget path "gtk-combobox-popup-window.GtkFrame" should take into
account that the frame no longer exists.
-* The external print preview application used by GtkPrintOperationPreview
- is now passed the print settings on the command line with the
- --print-settings parameter pointing to a temp file containing the
- settings. The preview application assumes ownership of the file and
- should delete it once it does not need it anymore. The --print-settings
- commandline option is understood by Evince 0.9.0 and newer. To use a
- different print preview application, change the gtk-print-preview-command
+* The external print preview application used by GtkPrintOperationPreview
+ is now passed the print settings on the command line with the
+ --print-settings parameter pointing to a temp file containing the
+ settings. The preview application assumes ownership of the file and
+ should delete it once it does not need it anymore. The --print-settings
+ commandline option is understood by Evince 0.9.0 and newer. To use a
+ different print preview application, change the gtk-print-preview-command
setting in your gtkrc file, e.g. gtk-print-preview-command = "ggv %f"
-* GtkMenuShell is now defined as an abstract type. It was already
- documented as an abstract class, and there is little reason to
+* GtkMenuShell is now defined as an abstract type. It was already
+ documented as an abstract class, and there is little reason to
instantiate it.
* The GtkTooltips struct (this is the old tooltips API) is now considered
private. Code that used to access this struct, in particular the
tips_data_list field, will need to change. All of the old tooltips
API has been deprecated in favour of a new implementation and
- API. This affects all of the gtk_tooltips_ functions, and functions
+ API. This affects all of the gtk_tooltips_ functions, and functions
which take a GtkTooltips argument, such as gtk_tool_item_set_tooltip()
and gtk_menu_tool_button_set_arrow_tooltip().
-
+
* The memory management of the GtkRecentManager object has been changed,
as using the screen didn't guarantee that the singleton instance was
correctly destroyed. The screen-related functions have been deprecated,
the gtk_recent_manager_get_default() function is guaranteed to be valid
for the entire lifetime of an application.
-* A number of interfaces that have been superseded by newer interfaces for
- a long time have finally been deprecated. This includes
+* A number of interfaces that have been superseded by newer interfaces for
+ a long time have finally been deprecated. This includes
gtk_widget_ref/unref(), gtk_rc_style_ref/unref() and the old file selector.
* The various coordinate systems in use in GtkTreeView widgets have
- been clarified in the documentation, and in the cause of doing so,
+ been clarified in the documentation, and in the cause of doing so,
the functions gtk_tree_view_widget_to_tree_coords() and
- gtk_tree_view_tree_to_widget_coords() have been deprecated in
+ gtk_tree_view_tree_to_widget_coords() have been deprecated in
favour of a new family of gtk_tree_view_convert_ functions.
* gtk_menu_item_remove_submenu() has been deprecated in favour of
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.
+* 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
+ 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
+* 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
* 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
+ 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
+* 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.
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
+ 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()
+ 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
+* 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
+* 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
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
+* 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.
+* 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
+ 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
+* 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.
+ 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
+* 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
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
+ consideration, and use the gstdio wrappers to access files whose
names have been constructed from strings returned from GTK+ or GLib.
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
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 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
+ 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
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.)
-GTK+ is part of the GNOME Subversion repository. At the current time, any
+GTK+ is part of the GNOME git repository. At the current time, any
person with write access to the GNOME repository, can make changes to
GTK+. This is a good thing, in that it encourages many people to work
on GTK+, and progress can be made quickly. However, GTK+ is a fairly
large and complicated package that many other things depend on, so to
avoid unnecessary breakage, and to take advantage of the knowledge
about GTK+ that has been built up over the last 4 years, we'd like
-to ask people commiting to GTK+ to follow a few rules:
+to ask people committing to GTK+ to follow a few rules:
0) Ask first. If your changes are major, or could possibly break existing
code, you should always ask. If your change is minor and you've
somebody may know a better way to do things.
If you are making changes to GTK+, you should be subscribed
- to gtk-devel-list@gnome.org. (Subscription address:
+ to gtk-devel-list@gnome.org. (Subscription address:
gtk-devel-list-request@gnome.org.) This is a good place to ask
- about intended changes.
+ about intended changes.
#gtk+ on GIMPNet (irc.gimp.org, irc.us.gimp.org, irc.eu.gimp.org, ...)
is also a good place to find GTK+ developers to discuss changes with,
1) Ask _first_.
-2) There must be a ChangeLog for every commit. (If you discover that
- you only committed half the files you meant to and need to fix that
- up, or something, you don't need a new ChangeLog entry. But in general,
- ChangeLog entries are mandatory.) Changes without ChangeLog entries
- will be reverted.
-
-3) There _must_ be a ChangeLog for every commit.
+2) With git, we no longer maintain a ChangeLog file, but you are expected
+ to produce a meaningful commit message. Changes without a sufficient
+ commit message will be reverted. See below for the expected format
+ of commit messages.
Notes:
-* If you are going to be changing many files in an experimental fashion,
- it probably is a good idea to create a separate branch for your changes.
+* When developing larger features or complicated bug fixes, it is
+ advisable to work in a branch in your own cloned GTK+ repository.
+ You may even consider making your repository publically available
+ so that others can easily test and review your changes.
+
+* The expected format for git commit messages is as follows:
+
+=== begin example commit ===
+Short explanation of the commit
+
+Longer explanation explaining exactly what's changed, whether any
+external or private interfaces changed, what bugs were fixed (with bug
+tracker reference if applicable) and so forth. Be concise but not too brief.
+=== end example commit ===
-* The ChangeLog entries should preferably match in date format
- with the existing entries. You can set how emacs does this
- by using customize mode:
+ - Always add a brief description of the commit to the _first_ line of
+ the commit and terminate by two newlines (it will work without the
+ second newline, but that is not nice for the interfaces).
- - M-x customize
- - set Programming/Tools/ChangeLog/Add Log Time Format to
- 'Old Format'
+ - First line (the brief description) must only be one sentence and
+ should start with a capital letter unless it starts with a lowercase
+ symbol or identifier. Don't use a trailing period either. Don't exceed
+ 72 characters.
+
+ - The main description (the body) is normal prose and should use normal
+ punctuation and capital letters where appropriate. Normally, for patches
+ sent to a mailing list it's copied from there.
+
+ - When committing code on behalf of others use the --author option, e.g.
+ git commit -a --author "Joe Coder <joe@coder.org>" and --signoff.
- Or, set the add-log-time-format to 'current-time-string in
- your .emacs file.
Owen Taylor
13 Aug 1998
17 Apr 2001
+
+Matthias Clasen
+31 Mar 2009
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