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[Bug-gnubg] Fwd: GTK+ 3.0.0 released


From: Øystein Schønning-Johansen
Subject: [Bug-gnubg] Fwd: GTK+ 3.0.0 released
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:04:52 +0100

It's here!

-Øystein


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Matthias Clasen <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:53 PM
Subject: GTK+ 3.0.0 released
To: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden


GTK+ 3.0.0 is now available for download at:

 http://download.gnome.org/sources/gtk+/3.0/
 ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/3.0/

sha256 sums:
ec0729bf28f09a16e0b0a6a588556c7cee091f40426505b3694a9488bf6cbf67  gtk
+-3.0.0.tar.bz2
d294155389c9ba4765c0b26805967f2dae1d84565f5d4095d489f94619406df9  gtk
+-3.0.0.tar.gz


What is GTK+
============

GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user
interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is
suitable for projects ranging from small one-off tools to
complete application suites.

GTK+ has been designed from the ground up to support a range
of languages, not only C/C++. Using GTK+ from languages such
as Perl and Python (especially in combination with the Glade
GUI builder) provides an effective method of rapid application
development.

GTK+ is free software and part of the GNU Project. However,
the licensing terms for GTK+, the GNU LGPL, allow it to be
used by all developers, including those developing proprietary
software, without any license fees or royalties. GTK+ is a
100% free-of-cost, open source, industrial-strength GUI
toolkit available today.

Since its origins as the toolkit for the GNU Image
Manipulation Program (GIMP), GTK+ has been used in a wide
range of software. Notably, GTK+ is the foundation of the
GNOME desktop; GTK+ 3 will be incorporated into version 3
of the GNOME desktop.


What's new in GTK+ 3
====================

GTK+ 3 is a major new version of GTK+, containing far too many
changes to list them all here. The major highlights include:

* Cairo drawing throughout. GDK no longer wraps the antiquated
 X11 drawing API; we've made a clean break and exclusively rely
 on cairo for all our drawing needs now. This has also enabled us
 to remove several other X11-centric concepts such as GCs, colormaps
 and pixmaps.

* Modern input device handling. The input device handling in GDK has
 long been a sadly neglected area. This has changed; with 3.0, GTK+
 steps into the modern world of XI2 with full support for multiple
 pointers, keyboards and other gizmos.

* A new theming API which sports a familiar CSS syntax for theme
 configuration and other improvements such as animated state
 transitions.

* More flexible geometry management, with support for height-for-width,
 for both widgets and cell renderers.

* Multiple backend support for GDK. With GTK+ 2.x, you had to recompile
 your application to have it work with a different GDK backend.
 In GTK+ 3, multiple GDK backends can be built into a single library
 and selected at runtime.

* Easy application support. With the integration of D-Bus support in
 GIO, we could finally add a GtkApplication class that handles a lot
 of the platform integration aspects of writing an application, such
 as keeping track of open windows, ensuring uniqueness, exporting
 actions, etc.

* Of course, there's some new widgets as well, such as a switch and
 an application chooser.


Where to get more information about GTK+
========================================

Information about GTK+ including links to documentation can be
found at:

 http://www.gtk.org/

An installation guide for GTK+ 3 is found at:

 http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk3/3.0/gtk-building.html

Common questions:

 http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk3/3.0/gtk-question-index.html

GTK+ 3 is a major new version of GTK+, changing the ABI and
the API compared to GTK+ 2.x. This means that GTK+ 2.x applications
will need some adjustments before they can be used with GTK+ 3.
The migration guide at

 http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk3/3.0/migrating.html

gives an overview of what is involved in porting to GTK+ 3.


Contributing
============

GTK+ is a large project and relies on voluntary contributions.
We are actively searching for new contributors in various areas
and invite everyone to help project development.
If you are willing to participate, please subscribe to the project
mailing lists to offer your help and read over our list of vacant
project tasks:

  http://live.gnome.org/GtkTasks


Thanks
======

GTK+ is the work of hundreds of contributors, far too many to list
them all here. But I want to take the time to thank some people
who contributed in a major way:

* Carlos Garnacho (lanedo), for his work on XI2 support and the new
 theme system

* Benjamin Otte (Red Hat), for his work on GDK and cairo drawing

* Tristan Van Berkom (Openismus), for his work on geometry management

* Colin Walters (Red Hat), for his work on GtkApplication

* Ryan Lortie (Codethink), for his work on dconf, GSettings and
 GtkApplication

* Javier Jardón, for tireless code, build and documentation cleanup


February 10, 2011
Matthias Clasen


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