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Highlights of GTK+ 2.10Highlights of GTK+ 2.10Kristian RietveldKristian Rietveld

[email protected]@imendio.comTim JanikTim Janik

[email protected]@imendio.com


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Agenda

Upcoming release Improvements

After 2.10

Summary


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Upcoming Release

GTK+ 2.10 expected next week Longer release cycle than usual

Project Ridley

Performance

Comes with GLib 2.12, Pango 1.14


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Improvements

Glib and Pango

GTK+


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GLib and Pango

GLib Memory Management

GLib Type System Changes Other Improvements

GLib Round Up

Pango


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GLib Memory Management

New memory management API: GSlice Got rid of:

GMemChunk

GAllocator


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GLib Memory Management (cont.)

Allocating and freeing:

yourmem = g_slice_new (StructureType);

g_slice_free (StructureType, yourmem);

Debugging:

G_SLICE=always-mallocG_DEBUG=gc-friendly


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GLib Type System Changes

G_TYPE_HASH_TABLE (reference counted hash tables)

G_TYPE_GTYPE to store types in GValues and properties

GInitiallyUnowned: moved initial floating reference fromGtkObject


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Other Improvements

GBookmarkFile: a parser for files containing bookmarksstored using the Desktop Bookmark specification

Priority sorting in GAsyncQueue

Reaping of idle threads from GThreadPool


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GLib Round Up

Some significant core changes (MainLoop, etc.)

Many misc improvements, optimizations and bugfixes

Lots of good improvements to the documentation

Many translation updates as always


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Pango

Many different optimizations

Updates to Unicode 4.1

ATSUI support (OS X backend)


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Pango (Cont.)

Documentation improvements Support for conditional compilation

Usual load of bugfixes (50+)

Some code cleanups


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GTK+

Image File Loading

Win32 Backend Theming

File Chooser

GtkTreeView

Other Improvements

New Additions


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Image File Loading

GdkPixbuf Save TIFF

Load 16 bit PNM

Partial loading of animated GIFs


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Win32 Backend

Windows support

Win32 backend updates

WIMP updates


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Theming Enhancements

Symbolic colors

color[my-red] = { 1.0, 0.0, 0.0 }bg[NORMAL] = lighter(@my-red)

Notebook tabulators

Spacing and padding

Customized expanders and resize grips


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Theming Example

GtkRange style properties


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File Chooser

Performance

Now fully asynchronous

Location entry always visible


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Location Entry

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GtkTreeView

Filter/sort model Theming

Search popup improvements

Rubber banding (demo!)

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Other Improvements

Rich text copy and paste in GtkTextView

Display closing / migration

Notebook DnD (demo!)

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New Additions

Backends

GtkAssistant

GtkStatusIcon Cell renderers

Recent files

Printing Other Additions

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Backends

Two new backends Mac OS X (Quartz / CoreGraphics)

DirectFB

Both are functional, but not 100% finished

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OS X backend

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GtkAssistant

Replaces GnomeDruid Single class

More flexible

Demo!

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GtkStatusIcon

Already in wide use due to libegg

Also support for Win32 tray icons

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Cell Renderers

GtkCellRendererSpin

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Recent Files

Widgetry for selecting recently used files Infrastructure for maintaining the list of recent files

Slides of Sunday's talk are at

http://o-hand.com/~ebassi/2006-guadec-recent-files/



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Printing

Cross-platform printing support GtkPrintOperation, for setting up the job

Page setup and print dialogs

Talk yesterday



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Other Additions

GtkLinkButton

Replaces GnomeHRef

Touchscreen mode



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After 2.10

GTK+ 2.12 release during January 2007

Don't expect 3.0 anytime soon

Want to avoid breaking API for a while

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GTK+ 2.12

GtkBuilder

Canvas New tooltips API

Introspection

GtkEntry (libsexy, multi-line) International calendar support



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Summary

GTK+ 2.10 out next week

Printing Recent files

New widgets

Lots of improvements

GTK+ 2.12 during January 2007 Will be really awesome too!



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Thanks

The GTK+ and GLib Team

The Pango Maintainers

All translation teams



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More information

http://www.gtk.org/

http://o-hand.com/~ebassi/2006-guadec-recent-files/

[email protected]

Blog entries on Planet GNOME

http://www.gtk.org/http://www.gtk.org/


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