[Help-smalltalk] GTK+ news

[Paolo Bonzini]

Hi, I've made some quite heavy work on Robert's blox-gtk (I started from 
patch-78, luckily as of now there are no more commits).  The result is 
that the browser works pretty well with Gtk+ without any modifications 
to the kernel/ and browser/ directories.  Layout is done using 
(blasphemy...) the GtkPlacer geometry manager, which is my Gtk+ 
implementation of the Tk placer.

The changes are very hard to post here because I made some refactoring 
(there was some misunderstanding about container/connected: I wanted 
every object to have a connected widget, identical to the container if 
necessary).

However, given the severe bug that save.c had in the last beta, I may do 
another public release before I upload the arch archive to 
sourcecontrol.net; I'll also release 2.1.9 now that the changes to the 
Gtk+ bindings are stabilized.

Summary of changes anyway is:
- I moved the GtkScrolledWindow stuff up to BViewport.
- I changed BForm to use GtkPlacer.
- I changed several methods in BText to be more consistent with what the 
Tk methods do.
- I did the change to have a VBox *and* Placer in a BWindow.
- I implemented BContainer>>#stretch:
- I moved the GtkUIManager to the menu bar.  Menus are quite messy 
(because at some moment they just stopped working and I hacked them 
until they worked again :-) and I am not satisfied but it works.
- I fixed some FIXMEs :-)
- I added support for popup menus.

Thank you very much Robert for allowing me to do a warm start!

Paolo