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GTK+ 2.0

Posted by michael on from the purty-pictures dept.

Some random reader sent in: "Gtk.org all of a sudden (?) says version 2.0 is available. There is a FAQ for 2.0. Here is a mail from the gtk-devel-list with some 'pre-release release-notes' :)."

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  1. Re:Wow.. by chabotc · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actualy, yes a amazing amount of bugs have been fixed in the last months and weeks. Ofcource it is worth keeping in mind this is a .0 release. So all critical bugs should've been found and fixed, but there's bound to be a slew of little ones left.

    More exiting though, is the fact that they can now begin on the next gtk release, which amongst other things will include a new file selector (open / save, etc) dialog ! This is something that a _lot_ of users are hoping and waiting for.

    (check http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2002 -March/msg00179.html for notes on the file selector.

  2. Real (draft) release notes by tal197 · · Score: 5, Informative
    The linked message only talks about proposed changes to the draft release notes... here are the release notes themselves (also draft):

    Draft release notes for Gtk

  3. New font system by tal197 · · Score: 5, Informative
    One of the main new features is the completely new font system:
    • Everything is in UTF-8 (so no more charset headaches :-)
    • AA fonts using XRENDER (do GDK_USE_XFT=1; export GDK_USE_XFT in your .xsession to enable them).
    • Sane font-chooser dialog, where you just select the font name, weight and size, instead of the previous multi-paned mess.
    • Lots of routines for laying out paragraphs, positioning text cursors, etc, for people doing their own text layout.

    On the negative side, the new font system seems much slower than before. Also it's completely incompatible with Gtk+-1.2, so anyone working with fonts has a massive updating task ahead.

    One cool new feature is that the default font is stored on the display, using the new XSettings system. This means that when you run a program on a remote machine, or as another user, etc, you don't lose your settings.

  4. Re:What about the Win32 port ? by Havoc+Pennington · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes, that's correct. The win32 version is not yet
    released though, it's just in "preview" status. Should be out in a few months.

  5. In Related News... by suwalski · · Score: 4, Informative

    news.gnome.org is reporting that Gnome Beta 2 ("I bastun bor vi allihopa!") is out!