http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:49:03 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/21289/Gtk_3_0_Roadmap_Draft_Published/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21289/Gtk_3_0_Roadmap_Draft_Published/ The Gtk+ team is working on a roadmap to structure the development process of the Gtk+ 3.0 release and to open up the involved decision making progress. The first draft has been sent to the devel mailing list, and is now open for debate. Coincidentally, the draft roadmap also provides a nice overview of the features and changes planned for Gtk+ 3.0. Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:15:18 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) GTK+ 28 http://www.osnews.com/topics/60 News Rahul http://www.osnews.com/story/21137/GTK_2_16_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21137/GTK_2_16_Released/ The GTK+ guys have released GTK+ 2.16. As always, this new release is source and binary compatible with the previous GTK+ release. In case you don't know: "GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable for projects ranging from small one-off tools to complete application suites." Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:48:35 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) GTK+ 4 http://www.osnews.com/topics/60 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21006/Musings_About_Modern_Gtk_Theming/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21006/Musings_About_Modern_Gtk_Theming/ "GTK+ may be called many things. I would call it 'simple' and sometimes even 'elegant', refering to its foundation of pure, elegant C. But not everyone is compelled to use those terms, using terms like 'clumsy' and 'unwieldy' instead. Yes, there is a lot disagreement. But there's one thing almost everyone would agree to: that GTK+ isn't pretty." This is about to change. Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:53:05 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) GTK+ 31 http://www.osnews.com/topics/60 News http://www.osnews.com/story/20326/Binary_Build_for_Native_Gtk_Mac_OS_X_Port_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20326/Binary_Build_for_Native_Gtk_Mac_OS_X_Port_Released/ Imendio has released a binary build for the native Gtk+ Mac OS X port. It can be downloaded at the project's webpage. The installed frameworks can be used directly in the Xcode IDE and come with a project template that sets all the necessary flags and variables to build against them. Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:29:14 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) GTK+ 16 http://www.osnews.com/topics/60 News Guido http://www.osnews.com/story/20161/Resolution_Independence_Coming_to_GTK_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20161/Resolution_Independence_Coming_to_GTK_/ Red Hat's David Zeuthen blogged today about the huge patch he submitted to GTK+ that will allow the toolkit to achieve resolution independence - widget and font size adapting to your screen's real estate; no more tiny application lost in the corner of your high resolution screen. Although more work is obviously required, Zeuthen's idea is to use RI as the hot-new-feature selling point of the upcoming 3.0 GTK+ release. Discussion is going on in the gtk-devel mailing list and there is an ogg video of the feature in action. Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:48:34 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) GTK+ 16 http://www.osnews.com/topics/60 News jcornuz http://www.osnews.com/story/20042/GTK_State_of_the_Union_Plans_for_3_0/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20042/GTK_State_of_the_Union_Plans_for_3_0/ At last week's Guadec meeting, Kristian Rietveld delivered the GTK+ "state of the union" report. GTK+ is the multi-platform toolkit behind a number of popular applications and, perhaps most well known, the Gnome Desktop environment for Linux. Read the full report here. Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:46:32 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Quentin Hartman) GTK+ 40 http://www.osnews.com/topics/60 News makkus http://www.osnews.com/story/19610/Reinventing_GTK_Envisioning_the_Future_of_the_Toolkit/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19610/Reinventing_GTK_Envisioning_the_Future_of_the_Toolkit/ Ars Technica has an article about recent proposals to evolve the GTK+ toolkit: "The developers of GTK are preparing for a major overhaul that aims to resolve many of the framework's most significant deficiencies and add next-generation features that will increase flexibility and simplify development. This effort is still in the earliest planning stage, but several intriguing proposals provide valuable insight into some of the changes envisioned by prominent developers." Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:01:01 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) GTK+ 53 http://www.osnews.com/topics/60 News Rehdon http://www.osnews.com/story/19464/GTK_3_0_Getting_Serious/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19464/GTK_3_0_Getting_Serious/ "On the 2008 GTK+ Hackfest in Berlin, Imendio's GTK+ hackers presented their vision of GTK+'s future and the reasons why they think that GTK+ has to make a step forward, embrace change and break ABI compatibility. Other GTK+ developers have also voiced their opinions, listing parts of GTK+ that need serious love, but state that they don't require breakage. Whether or not these are the things that will mark the road to GTK+ 3.0, almost all of them need attention. And give hints to the shape of things to come." Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:11:47 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) GTK+ 45 http://www.osnews.com/topics/60 News Pfeifer http://www.osnews.com/story/19044/GNOME_Theme_Designer_Adds_Transparency_to_Gtk_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19044/GNOME_Theme_Designer_Adds_Transparency_to_Gtk_/ "GNOME theme engine designer Andrea Cimitan has implemented support for transparent widgets in the Murrine GTK theme engine, bringing Vista-like translucent glass effects to the GNOME desktop. Cimitan used RGBA colormaps to implement the feature and says that, with only 10 or 20 extra lines of code, translucency can easily be added to other theme engines that support RGBA. Cimitan says that the addition of translucency effects proves that critics of GTK are wrong. "[I]n the last week I've seen a lot of people claiming about 'lacks' of Gtk+ capabilities," wrote Cimitan in a blog entry. "Some of them still think that Gtk+ doesn't have RGBA support... Or it will require nasty hacks. This is absolutely false." Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:27:19 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) GTK+ 80 http://www.osnews.com/topics/60 News SEJeff http://www.osnews.com/story/18847/Making_Linux_Application_User_Interfaces_Richer_with_OpenGL/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18847/Making_Linux_Application_User_Interfaces_Richer_with_OpenGL/ "Ars was at FOSSCamp this weekend. Think of FOSSCamp as an 'un-conference' without a set agenda where the minds behind open source projects get together and plot world domination (and, err, ways to improve their code). One fascinating session (and one that shows how FOSSCamp works and why it's so productive) was given by Mirco Muller, who discussed using OpenGL in GTK applications. Muller - the developer behind Cairo-Clock and the LowFat image viewer - talked about the state of OpenGL support in desktop applications and described various techniques that developers can use to make OpenGL content integrate better with conventional GTK user interfaces." Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:38:09 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) GTK+ 16 http://www.osnews.com/topics/60 News Hiev http://www.osnews.com/story/18417/GPE_2_8_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18417/GPE_2_8_Released/ The release 2.8 of GPE is complete and available for download. The new release comes with a large number of bugfixes and improvements such as an improved calendar, many fixed import/export and synchronisation issues as well as support for Maemo in additional components like Starling (the new audio player) and gpe-filemanager. Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:47:12 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia Loli-Queru) GTK+ 9 http://www.osnews.com/topics/60 News http://www.osnews.com/story/17967/Book_Review_Foundations_of_GTK_Development/ http://www.osnews.com/story/17967/Book_Review_Foundations_of_GTK_Development/ Often I complain that GTK+ documentation (non-reference) is non-existent. The few GTK+ books that were ever written are now old and most of their included source code does not even compile anymore. All hail "Foundations of GTK+ Development" by Andrew Krause. Wed, 23 May 2007 09:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia Loli-Queru) GTK+ 22 http://www.osnews.com/topics/60 Feature http://www.osnews.com/story/17738/Burning_CDs_with_Gnome/ http://www.osnews.com/story/17738/Burning_CDs_with_Gnome/ FreeSoftwareMagazine has an article about burning software available for Gnome. Two more interesting choices are the GTK-based Graveman! and Nero which released NeroLinux 3.0 beta very recently. Sun, 22 Apr 2007 02:30:18 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia Loli-Queru) GTK+ 55 http://www.osnews.com/topics/60 News http://www.osnews.com/story/17646/WebCore_From_Safari_2_0_Branch_Imported_in_GTK_-WebCore/ http://www.osnews.com/story/17646/WebCore_From_Safari_2_0_Branch_Imported_in_GTK_-WebCore/ Kimmo Kinnunen wrote yesterday on the GTK+-WebCore developer mailing list that he has imported the Safari 2.0 WebCore branch into GTK+-WebCore. "This means that from the webcore/javascriptcore part, the code is mostly the same as in current Safari. So if there are any crashes, they're not from webcore/javascriptcore part of the codebase with very high probability, rather my code." Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:45:59 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) GTK+ 58 http://www.osnews.com/topics/60 News dylansmrjones http://www.osnews.com/story/15532/Gideon_Designer_for_GTK_2_8_Final_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/15532/Gideon_Designer_for_GTK_2_8_Final_Released/ A final release of Gideon Designer for GTK+ 2.8 is available. Gideon is a modern professional RAD tool for GTK+. Most notable features include a tree-based property explorer, advanced support for multiple selections, and a flexible GuiXml resource format. Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:10:58 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) GTK+ 7 http://www.osnews.com/topics/60 News Maxim Udushlivy