GTK+ Archive

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.

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.

This is a development release leading up to GTK+ 2.4. Changes since GTK+ 2.3.0 consist of numerous small bug fixes and enhancements, with a special focus on the new GtkFileChooser. Glib, Pango announcements. On other Gnome/GTK+ news, Gnomemeeting 0.99 was released today too (review).

As applications based on gtk-python, Gtk# and gtkmm become aplenty, many casual Gnome users find it difficult to install them painlessly as these GTK+ bindings are not part of the default Gnome distribution and they usually don't come with the distro by default. Gtkmm's Murray Cumming is now suggesting that the project creates a GNOME Bindings release set with all the needed libraries and deps in the "package" in a way that makes it easier for both distro maintainers and casual users to install them. If the idea takes off it can be very beneficial for all.

The beauty of pyGTK and Glade is they have opened up cross-platform, professional-quality GUI development to those of us who'd rather be doing other things but who still need a GUI on top of it all. Not only does pyGTK allow neophytes to create great GUIs, it also allows professionals to create flexible, dynamic and powerful user interfaces faster than ever before. Read the article at LinuxJournal.

GTK+ 2.2.4 is now available for download here. This is a bug fix release and is source and binary compatible with previous releases in the 2.0 and 2.2 series. This is an emergency release to fix a critical GtkTreeView problem which broke context menus in several applications.

The new Glib/GTK+ 2.2.3 and Pango 1.2.5 were released yesterday.

Gtkmm is a C++ interface for popular GUI library gtk+. gtkmm provides convenient interface for C++ programmers to create graphical user interfaces with Gtk's flexible OO framework. Highlights include type safe callbacks, widgets extensible using inheritance and over 110 classes that can be freely combined to quickly create complex user interfaces. gtkmm is free software distributed under LGPL. Read the announcement of Gtkmm 2.2.5 here.

Bug-fix version 2.2.1 of the GTK+ widget toolkit and associated librares (GLib, Pango) is now available.

GTK+OSX is a native Mac OS X port of the Linux-based GTK+ open source graphical user interface library. GTK+OSX version 0.1 is an alpha release intended for developers.

This release fixes a critical bug in GTK+ 2.0.8, which caused recent metacity versions to crash. It is source and binary compatible with previous releases in the GTK+ 2.0 series.

Version 2.0.8 of the GTK+ widget toolkit is now available. Fixes gif/gdk-pixbuf and libtool-related bugs.

gtkmm (previously known as Gtk--) is the official C++ interface for the popular GUI library GTK+. Highlights include typesafe callbacks, widgets extensible via inheritance and a comprehensive set of widget classes that can be freely combined to quickly create complex user interfaces.

Version 2.0.6 of the GTK+ widget toolkit and associated libraries (GLib, Pango, and ATK) is now available. This is a bug-fix release. Announcements for GTK+ and GLib. Update: On a related note, GTK# 0.3 was released only a few days ago.