GTK+ Archive

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).

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 first stop in GTK+'s roadmap to GTK 2.4 is the unstable release of GTK+, Glib 2.3.0 and Pango 1.3.0. It includes a work-in-progress of the new File Selector (screenshot).

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.

PyGTK 2.0.0 and PyOrbit 2.0.0 are released, while the awaited gtk2-perl is on the final stages of its beta phase. Additionally, gtkmm 2.2.7 was released and the Gnome/Gecko browser, Epiphany 0.9.3, too.

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.

Owen Taylor announced the bug fixed releases of Glib 2.2.2 and Pango 1.2.3. UPDATE: GTK+ 2.2.2 also released.

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.

The stable version of GTK+ 2.2 was released today, along with GLib2 2.2.0 and Pango 1.2.0. This version of the GTK+ libraries will be used in the upcoming Gnome 2.2 release, which is the first version truly geared towards end-users.

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

Version 2.0.7 of the GTK+ widget toolkit and GLib are now available. This is a bug-fix release. In other recent GTK-related releases, you will find the Anjuta IDE reaching 1.0, while Dropline Installer 1.2.2 for Slackware is released.

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.

One day after the release of GTK+ 2.0.4, the team releases GTK+ 2.0.5 which fixes a couple of important bugs. Read the announcement here, and also read the announcements for GLib & GTK+ 2.0.4 and Pango 1.0.2.