Month: August 2016

This Week in GTK+ – 15

In this last week, the master branch of GTK+ has seen 60 commits, with 10838 lines added and 6850 lines removed.

Planning and status
  • We’re close to the GTK+ 3.22 release, in time for GNOME 3.22.
  • Emmanuele has implemented a more comprehensive fallback path for mixed widget trees in his GSK branch.
  • Timm Bäder has taken the initial port of the build system to Meson done at GUADEC by Jussi Pakkanen and improved upon it.
  • The GTK+ road map is available on the wiki.
Notable changes
  • Carlos Garnacho merged his branch that implements graphic tablet support for the Wayland GDK backend; more details are available on his blog.
  • Jonas Ådahl ported GDK to the 6th version of the Wayland xdg_shell protocol, and he also fixed the behavior of transient-for windows created by sandbox portals on Wayland.

Bugs fixed

  • 770236 – gtkbindings: Add an example for gtk_binding_entry_add_signal()
  • 770026 – review comments for wip/wayland-tablet-v2
  • 770332 – Notebook arrow icon wrong color after creating new tab
  • 769937 – wayland: Port backend to use xdg-shell unstable v6
  • 764413 – Wayland: not fullscreenable gtk+ apps can be fullscreened
  • 770374 – Gtk Treeview Editable overshoots column width when column width is small
  • 770550 – gtkplacessidebar: fix signal marshal
  • 770458 – GtkAboutDialog issue with long credit lists and GtkScrolledWindow
  • 769788 – Fix stacking order of flatpak portals on Wayland
Getting involved

Interested in working on GTK+? Look at the list of bugs for newcomers and join the IRC channel #gtk+ on irc.gnome.org.

This Week in GTK+ – 14

In these last two weeks, the master branch of GTK+ has seen 48 commits, with 4967 lines added and 3798 lines removed.

Planning and status
  • We skipped last week’s update due to most of the GTK+ developers being at GUADEC.
  • We had very productive discussions regarding the new release management and versioning scheme going forward; expect a full announcement on this blog.
  • GSK has been reviewed during GUADEC, and the work on the conversion of widgets to the new retained rendering API is ongoing; the API won’t be merged for 3.22, in order to improve rendering performance, shake out the last API issues found during porting, and especially avoid last minute breaking of applications using their own rendering on top of GTK+ windows, like Firefox and LibreOffice.
  • Carlos Garnacho has been porting the Wayland backend to the new tablet protocol; various changes have already landed in master, and the bulk of the review process is in bug 770026.
  • The work to support HiDPI displays in the Windows backend is progressing in bug 768081.
  • The GTK+ road map is available on the wiki.
Notable changes
  • Andreas Pokorny has been updating the Mir backend for GDK to improve the integration of GTK+ applications.
  • Timm Bäder added two new methods to GtkPopover, gtk_popover_popup() and gtk_popover_popdown(); these two new methods implement animated transitions, while calling gtk_widget_show() and gtk_widget_hide() will immediately show or hide the GtkPopover. With the addition of these two new methods, the GtkPopover:transitions-enabled property is now redundant and has been deprecated.

Bugs fixed

  • 769603 – gtk+-3.20.8: underlink issue with ld.gold – build fails: ./.libs/libgdk-3.so: error: undefined reference to ‘shm_open’
  • 769601 – Dead link in faq on gtk-question-index.html
  • 769568 – Modification date display incorrectly wraps calendar days (and is inconsistent with GTK2 and Nautilus)
  • 768138 – Update the GDK-Mir backend to fix a few problems
  • 769706 – Add show/hide API to GtkPopover
  • 769402 – regression in menu positioning on wayland
  • 768017 – [Wayland] menus opened from access keys (mnemonic menu items) hide instantly
Getting involved

Interested in working on GTK+? Look at the list of bugs for newcomers and join the IRC channel #gtk+ on irc.gnome.org.

This Week in GTK+ – 13

In this last week, the master branch of GTK+ has seen 29 commits, with 4141 lines added and 3230 lines removed.

Planning and status
Notable changes
  • Ruslan Izhbulatov fixed two long standing issues with the keyboard layout and dead keys handling on Windows. GTK+ applications on Windows should now behave more in line with the rest of the platform, especially on US international keyboards. The changes have been applied to the master branch, but after further testing they should be backported to the 2.x stable branch.

Bugs fixed

  • 769287 – GtkMenuToolButton:show-menu is emitted twice and breaks dynamic menus
  • 769485 – Eliminate use of g_test_expect_message()
  • 712760 – Clang static analysis fixes
  • 769451 – Build failure of 3.21 (master) in Debian Unstable since 7-26-2016
Getting involved

Interested in working on GTK+? Look at the list of bugs for newcomers and join the IRC channel #gtk+ on irc.gnome.org.

This Week in GTK+ – 12

In this last week, the master branch of GTK+ has seen 28 commits, with 1868 lines added and 1422 lines removed.

Planning and status
Notable changes
  • Georges Basile Stavracas Neto has made the formerly private GtkShortcutLabel widget, used by the shortcuts window, part of the public API; the widget will be used in the GNOME Control Center keyboard options, and can be used by applications that allow editing their own keyboard shortcuts, like PiTiVi.

Bugs fixed

  • 768999 – Floating point exception (division by zero) when running under Xvfb
  • 768930 – reftests: override GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR when running tests
  • 760944 – resizing and geometry (snap to character cells) regressed with Gtk 3.19+
  • 755947 – wayland: gnome-terminal does not fill entire area when tiled
  • 769047 – GtkWidget <-> GtkStyleContext API not clear
  • 769205 – Expose GtkShortcutLabel as a public widget
  • 769004 – css test suite failures in 3.21.4
  • 768902 – Font too small when using gtk_widget_override_font()
  • 769126 – Can’t type astral plane characters into a GtkEntry using the Windows 10 touch keyboard
  • 769236 – demos: Fix build failure
Getting involved

Interested in working on GTK+? Look at the list of bugs for newcomers and join the IRC channel #gtk+ on irc.gnome.org.