GTK+ Archive

GTK+ 2.0.5 Released

Eugenia Loli 2002-06-16 GTK+ 7 Comments

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.

Programming for GNOME with C++: Murray Cumming

Eugenia Loli 2002-05-24 GTK+ 2 Comments

"If you have followed GNU/Linux for the last few years you know that GNOME has long been a stronghold of C, Perl and Python GUI programming. With Ximian's work on Mono, C# seems also to be a language that will see wide use in GNOME. Sun's involvement should also make Java applications integrate strongly with GNOME. But what about C++? Even in the GNU/Linux and Unix world this language has received many advocates and developers. I sat down with Murray Cumming, lead developer on the gtkmm and gnomemm C++ bindings for GTK+ and GNOME to get some information on the status of C++ development in GNOME." Read the interview at LinuxOrbit.

GTK# Enhances GTK+ with C# Bindings

Eugenia Loli 2002-04-11 GTK+ 2 Comments

Mike Kestner announced today his C# bindings for the well-known GUI Toolkit, GTK+ 2.x. To compile the examples you will still need a Win32 machine with the (freely available on Microsoft.com) .NET Framework installed (137+20 MB for the SDK, 20 MB for the runtime), as the project is not yet self-hosted under Linux. What this means is that developers soon will be able to write C# applications for GNOME.

GTK+ 2.0-Final Released

Eugenia Loli 2002-03-10 GTK+ 22 Comments

The C-based GTK+ cross platform toolkit has now reached version 2.0. This version is the basis of Gnome 2.0 as well and its libraries are not compatible in either source or binary form with previous GTK+ applications. FAQ and release notes. The C++ bindings for GTK+ 2.0, called Gtkmm, is expected to be released very soon too. UPDATE: On a related note, Gnome 2 Beta 2 released for general testing.

Getting ready for GNOME 2, Part 1

Eugenia Loli 2002-01-03 GTK+ 5 Comments

"developerWorks is pleased to announce the relaunch of the Linux zone's popular GNOMEnclature column. In this incarnation of the column, Mikael Hallendal and Richard Hult of CodeFactory will give you the inside information you need to make the best use of the new GNOME 2 platform. In this series, you'll learn how to use the new and improved libraries available with GNOME 2 so that you can write your own Nautilus view, panel applets, and much more. In this article, Mikael and Richard reopen the series with a gentle introduction to GTK+ 2, the new foundation for the GNOME 2 desktop environment. By the end of this article, you'll have written and compiled a few sample GTK+ 2 programs and have a good understanding of GTK+ 2's many improvements over GTK+ 1." Detailed article, introducing the new features of GTK+ 2, such as double buffering (helps avoid flickering), full antializing, a powerful textview and more.

GDKxft 1.3 Patch Enables Anti-Aliasing on Mozilla

Eugenia Loli 2001-11-09 GTK+ 4 Comments

Gdkxft transparently adds anti-aliased font support to GTK+ 1.2. Once you have installed it, you can run any (or, nearly any) existing GTK+ binary and see anti-aliased fonts in the GTK widgets. You don't need to recompile GTK+ or your applications. The latest version of Gdkxft, version 1.3, adds AA support for Mozilla.

New Release of (Unstable) GTK+ Libraries

Eugenia Loli 2001-10-28 GTK+ No Comments

A new release of the development versions of GTK+ and associated libraries (GLib, Pango, Atk) is available at GTK's FTP site. In this unstable version of 1.3.10 (which it will become GTK+ 2.0) you can find GtkTextView fixes, drag-n-drop fixes to generic code and widgets and many Win32 fixes and improvements. More details at Linux Programming web site.

New GTK+ 2.0 Tech Article

Eugenia Loli 2001-10-09 GTK+ 3 Comments

"GTK+ is emerging as a standard for both open-source and commercial software on Linux. Soon to be released GTK+ version 2.0 provides advantages for the user and programmer as well as for people deploying the resulting applications. Users will appreciate the enhanced functionality of existing and new widgets as well as the improvements to the look and feel of the user interface. Programmers will find the powerful new widgets easier to use and more functional. Markets will grow with the ports to additional windowing systems and the enhanced internationalization." Owen Taylor writes. Read the rest of this very interesting tech article on the upcoming release of GTK 2.0. The article is available in Postscript and PDF format.

New Development Version of GTK+ Available

Eugenia Loli 2001-09-05 GTK+ No Comments

A new release of the development versions of GTK+ and associated libraries (GLib, Pango, Atk) is available. This is a an unstable preview release and should not be used in production. This release is incompatible with GTK+ and GLib 1.2.x and software that has not been explicitly ported will not compile with this version. GTK+ 1.3.7 is the unstable version that will result to GTK+ 2.0 which is the next major version of GTK+ and the one which Gnome 2.0 will be based on.