GTK+ Archive

Red Hat's Matthias Clasen released GTK+ 2.5.1 and GLib 2.5.1 for testing.

GLib-2.4.5 is now available for download. This is a bug fix release and is source and binary compatible with 2.4.0. The main reason for this release is a bug in the routines converting between filenames and URIs, which can cause problems when used with filenames which are not encoded in UTF-8.

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.

The bug-fixed GLib-2.4.4 is now available for download here. UPDATE: And here is GTK+ 2.4.4.

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.

This document aims to explain the feasibility of image processing using GTK. The document scratches the surface when it comes to explaining the nook & corner of Image processing theory. It shows examples of pixel based filters and convolution filters. Developers are asked to rewrite the doc to GTK#.

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.

Seen at Ximian's Federico Mena-Quintero blog: GTK+'s Owen Taylor posted an interesting study on how to render nice fonts on a resolution-independent screen. It seems that Red Hat is gearing up to compete with Longhorn's features. Elsewhere, Søren Sandmann posted a good list of interaction problems in GTK+ that individual hackers might enjoy fixing.

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.

CinePaint is taking a new direction to migrate away from GTK+ to FLTK and this has lit up a new discussion about GTK+ 2.x's speed problems on both Windows and Unix. The CinePaint project cited other reasons as well, like the non-elegance of the API, the bloated source that makes it difficult to debug it and thread-safe reasons.

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.

Development versions GTK 2.3.5, GLib 2.3.5 and Pango 1.3.5 were released 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.

GTK programming has almost never been this easy: IBM developer shares his skills, his enthusiasm, and his modified code for the SimpLIstic sKin interface (or SLIK). SLIK provides a great tool for building advanced user interfaces in Linux or Unix systems. A part of the GQmpeg toolset, it is written using the GTK toolkit, a powerful set of widgets for graphics used by such applications as the GIMP and other GNOME-based apps.