http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2008, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Sat, 17 May 2008 06:04:58 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 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 http://www.osnews.com/story/15508/Glade3_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/15508/Glade3_Released/ The new and re-written version of Glade has taken the streets. Glade 3.0 Requires GTK+ 2.8 and libxml2, Glade 3.0 will expose properties, signals and widgets from GTK+ 2.8, but it has deprecated support for custom widgets. Update: Glade 3 is featured on the latest Gnomejournal. Tue, 15 Aug 2006 23:22:49 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia Loli-Queru) GTK+ 23 http://www.osnews.com/topics/60 News Mitarai http://www.osnews.com/story/15076/Gtk+_2.10_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/15076/Gtk+_2.10_Released/ Gtk+ 2.10 has been released. Check the release notes. This release offers better printing support, improved drag and drop support, and much more. For the record: "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, 03 Jul 2006 07:04:23 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) GTK+ 40 http://www.osnews.com/topics/60 News http://www.osnews.com/story/14658/Gideon_Designer_Will_Support_Not_Only_C++/ http://www.osnews.com/story/14658/Gideon_Designer_Will_Support_Not_Only_C++/ "I am glad to announce that Gideon Designer will support languages other than C++. This will be achieved by means of a new language-independent library, GuiLoader, and its language bindings. The library is intended to parse GuiXml files (Gideon save format) and create widgets at run-time by request of a client application." Sat, 20 May 2006 20:49:48 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) GTK+ 8 http://www.osnews.com/topics/60 News Maxim Udushlivy http://www.osnews.com/story/14533/GTK+_2.9.0_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/14533/GTK+_2.9.0_Released/ GTK+ 2.9.0 has been released. This is the first development release leading up to GTK+ 2.10. For completeness: "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." Fri, 05 May 2006 19:54:26 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) GTK+ 38 http://www.osnews.com/topics/60 News http://www.osnews.com/story/13942/How_to_Deploy_GTK+/ http://www.osnews.com/story/13942/How_to_Deploy_GTK+/ "This article covers everything you need to get your product to the user - that is, you learn how to deploy a GTK+ application. Being unique is usually a good thing, but not in the case of libraries. With software, wider popularity means more reviews, more bugs reported (and, therefore, fixed), and a better chance that different cases and unusual circumstances are tested. All this generally leads to better and easier-to-use libraries. Fortunately, GTK+ is a big player here and one of the more widely used software packages." Sat, 11 Mar 2006 16:59:57 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) GTK+ 3 http://www.osnews.com/topics/60 News anonymous http://www.osnews.com/story/13270/GTK+_fundamentals_Part_2:_How_to_use_GTK+/ http://www.osnews.com/story/13270/GTK+_fundamentals_Part_2:_How_to_use_GTK+/ This article, the second in a three-part series titled "GTK+ fundamentals," introduces you to programming with GTK+. It analyzes a sample GTK+ application written in C, then shows that same application written in Python and C#. Finally, it discusses some useful tools that can help you develop better applications faster with GTK+. Wed, 11 Jan 2006 23:23:35 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia Loli-Queru) GTK+ 46 http://www.osnews.com/topics/60 News