GTK+ Archive

Since the release of PHP5 a lot of interest has reverberated down through the whole PHP community. In particular, there's a call for a PHP-GTK 2.0 which will utilize GTK2 and will have an entire rewrite of it from the ground up to make use of new features.

The first unstable major version of GTK+ are out and about: Pango 1.5.1, GTK+ 2.5.0 and GLib 2.5.0. Among the new features are some visual ehancements on the way windows draw/resize.

At GUADEC, Owen Taylor and the other GTK+ developes got to discuss the future of the toolkit.

GTK+ 2.4.3 is a bug fix release and is source and binary compatible with 2.4.0. The main reason for this quick followup release is a problem with the button size allocation logic in 2.4.2, which showed up in the Gimp. A number of other bugfixes have been included as well.

GTK+ and GLib 2.4.2 are released. This is a bug fix release and is source and binary compatible with 2.4.0. There are a considerable number of fixes in this release, especially in the areas of GtkFileChooser, GtkComboBox and GtkEntryCompletion. Also, a problem on Solaris has been fixed.

PHP enters the standalone GUI application arena with PHP-GTK. Learn the basic building blocks of PHP-GTK coding with a tutorial for first installing the language and then building and connecting its widgets, buttons, and functions.

GTK+-2.4.1 and GLib-2.4.1 are now available for download. This is a bug fix release.

On time and in-sync, gtkmm 2.4 is now here. gtkmm provides a C++ interface to GTK+, with comprehensive documentation. gtkmm 2.4 wraps additional API in GTK+ 2.4. gtkmm 2.4 installs in parallel with gtkmm 2.2, so you can have both installed at the same time. glibmm is now a separate module, for use in non-GUI software.

Pango, Glib & GTK 2.4.0 have been released. The announces with a changelog are here, here and here.

Owen Taylor released development versions of GLib-2.3.6, Pango-1.3.6 and GTK+-2.3.6. Also, there was a GTK+-2.4.0 schedule change, while Owen posted a summary of a GTK+ team meeting regarding 2.4.

Owen Taylor released GTK+ 2.3.4, Glib 2.3.3 and Pango 1.3.3. These versions are intended for testing.

This is a development release leading up to GTK+-2.4. Changes since GTK+-2.3.1 include many API fixes for new widgets and bug fixes in new and old code, along with various new API enhancements, such as allowing saving a GdkPixbuf to an in memory buffer, and a "blazingly fast" fixed-height mode that can be enabled for GtkTreeView. GLib 2.3.2 and Pango 1.3.2 were also released. Elsewhere, ComputerWorld interviews Jeff Waugh, release manager of Gnome.

A lot of waiting and criticism has being wasted on Gnome/GTK's new file selector window. I decided to give my two cents on how I would personally perceive a good GTK+ file selector and make an honest suggestion. Special thanks to Tigert who gave me the motivation to work on this earlier today.

GTK+OSX's project manager, Robin Rowe, is now in search of Mac/Unix developers to help him out with a native port of GTK+ for Mac OS X, based on Carbon and without the aid of X11. The port is already usable (CinePaint can run on it) but there is a lot of work still to be done. A stable native GTK+ port could enrich significantly the OSX application base with free open source like Gimp, Bluefish or Anjuta and add to the elegance without the use of X11 (Robin said the port will use an OSX theme by default).