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@ -3,41 +3,42 @@ Overview of Changes in GTK 3.98.0
While this release gets significantly closer to what we aim for in GTK 4,
there are still a few big items outstanding that we are currently working
on.
on:
- Animation API
- Row-recycling list and grid views
- Event controllers for keyboard shortcuts
- Movable popovers
- Row-recycling list and grid views
- Revamped accessibility infrastructure
- Animation API
We will do further 3.9x snapshots as these land:
We will do further 3.98.x snapshots as these land.
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* The DND refactoring has been completed. The GTK api for DND has been turned
* The DND refactoring has been completed. The GTK API for DND has been turned
into event controllers: GtkDragSource and GtkDropTarget. Support for file
transfers via file transfer portal has been added to both DND and the clipboard.
transfers via file transfer portal has been added for both DND and the clipboard.
* Child surfaces have been removed. GDK only supports toplevel and popup surfaces
now. The client-side window implementation has been removed too. On the GTK side,
the GtkNative interface has been introduced for widgets that have their own
surface.
surface. This cleanup is not 100% complete yet.
* Global positions and related apis such as gdk_surface_move are no longer available.
* A constraint-based layout manager has been added.
* Many classes have been made explicitly non-subclassable, and the widget hierarchy has
been simplified, by making widgets derive directly from GtkWidget instead of a container.
* Many classes have been made explicitly non-subclassable, and the widget hierarchy
has been simplified, by making widgets derive directly from GtkWidget instead of
a container.
* Menu-related changes:
- GtkMenu, GtkMenuBar and related classes have been removed. They are being replaced by
GMenu and popover-based variants. Popover menus can now do traditional, nested menus,
and model buttons show accelerators.
- GtkMenu, GtkMenuBar and related classes have been removed. They are being replaced
by GMenu and popover-based variants. Popover menus can now do traditional, nested
menus, and model buttons show accelerators.
- Context menus are no longer created with ::populate-popup signals, but use menu
models and actions.
- There are apis to create actions at class_init time, like gtk_widget_class_install_action.
- Widget actions can be created in class_init, with gtk_widget_class_install_action.
- GtkToolbar has been removed as well.
* Text-related changed:
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- The xim input method has been removed
* Wayland-specific changes:
- The loading of cursor themes has been improved to load cursors on demand, and
no longer relies on libwayland-cursor.
- The loading of cursor themes has been improved to load cursors on demand,
and no longer relies on libwayland-cursor.
* The GL renderer is now sharing icon and glyph caches for all surfaces, and
has better support for blurring and shadow rendering.
* The GL renderer is now sharing icon and glyph caches for all surfaces,
and has better support for blurring and shadow rendering.
* Performance-related changes:
- GTK provides profiling information for Sysprof when launched with GTK_TRACE=1.