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Matthias Clasen fca87d93e9 Updates
2021-08-19 01:47:43 -04:00

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Overview of Changes in 4.4.0
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* Input:
- Match IBus for display of Compose sequences
- Match IBus for handling of mismatches
- Handle Escape in Compose sequences
- Allow multiple dead keys
- Support 32bit keysyms
* GtkCheckButton:
- Activate when moving focus
* GtkLabel:
- Propertly ignore double underscores for mnemonics
* GtkPopoverMenu:
- Fix focus cycling
* GtkTextView:
- Improve word selection
* GdkToplevel:
- Support the gnome-shell titlebar gesture protocol
* GdkDropTarget:
- Allow creating drop targets in ui files
* gsk:
- Handle partial color fonts correctly
- Use harfbuzz for color font information
- Avoid pango for glyph cache rendering
- Shrink shadow extents
* Settings:
- Change the default for gtk-split-cursor to FALSE
* Demos:
- Small improvements to widget-factory
- gtk-demo: Improve the hypertext demo
- gtk-dem: Improve the clipboard demo
* X11:
- Set WM_CLASS on toplevels
* Wayland:
- Support wl_seat v7
* Windows:
- Drop the local DND protocol
- Avoid WGL if shaders don't work
* Translation updates:
Belarusian
Friulian
Hebrew
Khmer
Persian
Polish
Overview of Changes in 4.3.2
============================
* GtkToggleButton:
- Fix the actionable implementation
* GtkCheckButton:
- Fix the actionable implementation
- Cancel activation on when the pointer leaves
* GtkMenuButton:
- Make activatable again
- Add a way to have an icon + arrow
* GtkColorButton:
- Make activatable again
* GtkFontButton:
- Make activatable again
* GtkAppChooserButton:
- Make activatable again
* GtkColumnView:
- Fix double activation
* GtkLabel:
- Fix mnemonics without markup
* GtkTreeView:
- Clip header buttons
* GtkTextView:
- Add api to get the RTL and LTR contexts
- Fix some errors in text history grouping
* GtkText:
- Don't show placeholder text on top of entry text
- Add api to compute the cursor extents
- Fix y coordinates for text selection
* GtkFileChooser:
- Don't show Trash in the side bar
* GtkPopoverMenu:
- Add scrollbars to long menus
* GtkActionMuxer:
- Fix propagation of accel changes
* Introspection:
- Annotate all filename arguments
- Rename GtkMediaStream apis to avoid name collisions
- Rename GtkDropTarget properties to avoid name collisions
- Make GtkPasswordEntryBuffer introspectable
* Printing:
- Remove the Google Cloud Print backend
* Theme:
- Sync included icons with the Adwaita icon theme
* GSK:
- Avoid overflowing the vertex counter
- Handle negative scales correctly in the ngl renderer
* GDK:
- Cleanup and simplify OpenGL setup code
- Add a GdkDisplay::init_gl vfunc and gdk_display_prepare_gl() api
- Require EGL 1.4
- Fix EGL + NVidia
* Build:
- Enable gstreamer by default
- Disable Vulkan by default
- Remove the sassc option
- Remove options and checks for X11 extensions
* X11:
- Stop using XComposite
- Remove the Visual cache
* Wayland:
- Fix some DND corner cases
- Work with version 2 of pointer-gestures-v1
- Look for cursor themes in $HOME/.icons
* Windows:
- Fix SIGILL on x64 due to popcnt
- Fix popup placement
- Fix drag icon placement
- Clean up HiDPI and WGL support
- Default to WGL
* MacOs:
- Fix input method support
- Register known clipboard types for drop targets
- Add initial DND support
* Translation updates:
Brazilian Portuguese
Portuguese
Romanian
Turkish
Ukrainian
Overview of Changes in 4.3.1
============================
* GtkEmojiChooser:
- Update data from CLDR 39
- Load Emoji data for both language and territory
* GtkCalendar:
- Fix an off-by-one error in day numbers
* GtkListView:
- Add .activatable style class to activatable items
* GtkCheckButton:
- Don't allow unchecking grouped radio buttons
*GtkToggleButton:
- Fix mnemonic activation propagation
* GtkLabel:
- Make mnemonics work even when invisible
- Fix mnemonic activation propagation
* GtkMenuButton:
- Add a property to mark primary menus and make F10 work
* GtkApplication:
- Fix initial screensaver state async
* GtkEntry:
- Apply xalign to placeholder text (as it was in GTK 3)
* GtkSpinButton:
- Fix swipe gestures
* GtkStackSwitcher:
- Implement GtkOrientable (as it was in GTK 3)
- Fix a use-after-free problem with drag timeouts
* GtkFileChooser:
- Add support for (case-insensitive) suffix matches in GtkFileFilter
* GtkPasswordEntry:
- Make GtkPasswordEntryBuffer public, to make it easier
to write your own password entry widget
* Input:
- Fix interference between various obscure XKB features
(e.g. overlays) and Compose sequences
* Action support:
- Fix submenu-action handling
* Theme:
- Update icons from the Adwaita icon theme
- Fix icon names for GtkSwitch
- Fix switch-off icon
* GSK:
- Improve transformed offscreen rendering
- Add padding between cached glyphs
* Wayland:
- Fix monitor sizes in the presence of transforms
- Add a getter for the EGLDisplay
- Fix click-drag-release sequences for popovers
* X11:
- Support EGL for X11. Fall back to GLX if EGL isn't available
- Always fall back to GLX on NVidia
- Add a getter for the EGLDisplay
* Broadway:
- Add a setter for display scale
* Windows:
- Add a getter for the EGLDisplay
- Make GL work for media playback
* MacOS:
- Fix menubar appearance
* Tools:
- gtk4-builder-tool: Replace can-focus with focusable in 3-to-4 conversion
* Introspection:
- Add missing annotations in a few places (e.g. gtk_free_view_row_activated)
* Build:
- Only build one source file with -mf16c
- Fix devel styling for ci flatpak builds
- Generate appdata for demo flatpaks
* Docs:
- Numerous fixes and additions
* Translation updates:
Friulian
Nepali
Norwegian Bokmål
Ukrainian
Overview of Changes in 4.3.0
============================
* GtkVideo:
- Detect stream metadata when using gstreamer
* GtkFileChooser:
- Fix a crash
* GtkButton:
- Add back visual feedback for keynav activation
* GtkFontChooser:
- Fix initial font selection
* Text widgets:
- Replace squiggly error underlines by dotted lines
- Support translucent selections
* GtkTextView:
- Various improvements to rendering performance
* GtkScrolledWindow:
- Stop using scroll cursors
* GtkMenuButton:
- Make focus-on-click work
* GtkToggleButton:
- Make grouped buttons mutually exclusive
* GtkPasswordEntry:
- Use MADV_DONTDUMP for secure memory
* GtkListBox:
- Allow repeated selection extension for MULTIPLE
* Themes:
- Reorganize and rename included themes. The theme is now
called Default, with dark, hc and hc-dark variants.
Visually, the themes are unchanged.
- The theme variants are also available as standalone
themes called Default-dark, etc.
- The theme named Adwaita is moving to libadwaita
- Fix resize border sizing
- Fix solid-csd window decorations
* Input:
- Revert some Compose sequence changes (mainly around dead
acute and apostrophe)
- Consume all key events during preedit, to avoid unexpected
interactions
- Ignore more modifiers during preedit, to allow using 3rd and
5th level choosers
- Fix handling of cursor positions in non-ASCII preedit text
- Fix a problem with deferred focus setting
* GdkClipboard:
- Ensure strings are nul-terminated
* GSK:
- Improvements to the ngl renderer
- Fix offscreen rendering with transforms
- Fix downscaled textures
- Avoid huge intermediate textures
- Use fp16 for colors
- Optimize handling of underlines in text
- Fix corner cases of shadow rendering
- Reorganize shader resources
- Make shadow rendering match across renderers
* Accessibility:
- Various fixes to get Orca to speak (still a work in progress)
* Wayland:
- Improve font settings fallback
- Avoid unintentional rendering freezes with popovers
- Support the xdg_activation_v1 protocol
* X11:
- Don't beep on untrusted displays
- Don't crash when popovers are outside the workarea
* Windows:
- Fix using GL rendering with Mesa drivers
* Tools:
- Add support for copy/paste in gtk4-node-editor
- Make syntax highlighting work in the gtk4-demo flatpak
* Inspector:
- Enable the inspector by default, in all cases
- Show keyboard layouts
- Improve monitor information
* Translation updates:
Catalan
Chinese (Taiwan)
Dutch
Nepali
Polish
Swedish
Ukrainian
Overview of Changes in 4.2.0
============================
* GtkFileChooser: Make the location entry work again
* GtlLabel: Fix tooltips on links
* GtkTextView: Make scrolling work better with renderers
* X11:
- Fix damage handling
- Trap errors from the COW
* Windows:
- Use a visible scroll cursor
- Include more icons for icon-theme-less situations
* Wayland: Fix key event matching with mismatched layouts.
This was causing keyboard accelerators to trigger unexpectedly
* Inspector: Allow inspecting Unicode
* Input:
- Improve dead key handling
- Regenerate compose sequence table
* gsk:
- Fix a crash in the ngl renderer
- Fix a rounding error in subpixel glyph positioning
- ngl: Implement glyph cache eviction
- ngl: Improve the glyph cache effectiveness
- ngl: Fix uniform key mapping on Windows
- Make the ngl renderer the default
* build:
- Fix build with cairo as subproject
- Disable g_assert in release builds
- Include gi-docgen as subproject
- Include generated docs
* Translation updates:
Hebrew
Hungarian
Italian
Polish
Portuguese
Swedish
Ukrainian
Overview of Changes in 4.1.2
============================
* Input:
- Ensure preedit-start and preedit-end
are emitted properly
- Support the Wayland text protocol better
- Delete the selection when preedit starts
* Label: Fix a small issue with markup parsing
and mnemonics
* Spinbutton: Interpret localized digits
* Textview: Fix blinking block cursors
* Tooltips: Don't pop up erroneous on popovers
* Window: Add a way to disable F10 handling
* Theme:
- Use a regular focus ring for sidebar rows
* GSK
- ngl: Performance improvements
- vulkan: Add visible fallback rendering
- vukan: Handle simple transforms when clipping
* Wayland:
- Don't force a full redraw for every frame
- Don't leak buffers when rendering with cairo
* Demos:
- iconbrowser: Make search more useful
* Documentation:
- Switch to building docs from gir files with gi-docgen
* build:
- Allow GTK to be used as meson subproject
* Translation updates
Catalan
Czech
Finnish
French
Indonesian
Kazakh
Latvian
Norwegian Bokmål
Polish
Serbian
Turkish
Overview of Changes in 4.1.1
============================
* Popover:
- Support shadows on popover > contents
* Input:
- Show preedit for compose sequences
- Support long compose sequences
- Support compose sequences producing multiple characters
* Themes:
- Allow suggested and destructive actions in lists
- Disable shadows on maximized, fullscreen and tiled windows
- Fine-tune scrollbar transitions and size
* CSS:
- Support drop-shadow filters
- Correct blur filter spread interpretation
* Documentation:
- Improvements and updates for dialogs and native dialog
* Printing:
- Support Avahi-discovered printers better
* GSK:
- Add another OpenGL render. It is not the default yet.
To try it, use GSK_RENDERER=ngl
* Build:
- Lots of static analysis fixes found by pvs
- Add a -Dprofile=devel option for devel styling and
use it for nightly flatpaks
* X11:
- Fix DND of X11-specific types
* Wayland:
- Fix lookup of font settings in flatpaks
* Windows:
- Fix window resizing
- Avoid UAC for gtk-update-icon-cache
* MacOs:
- Use correct module file extension
- Make OpenGL context opaque when possible
- Fix window resizing
* Translation updates:
British English
Czech
Danish
Galician
Hungarian
Turkish
Overview of Changes in 4.1.0
============================
* GtkCheckButton:
- Add back an activate signal
* GtkSearchBar, GtkSearchEntry:
- Capture events in the bubble phase
* GtkEmojiChooser:
- Adapt to small screen sizes
* GtkVideo:
- Fix issues with GL support
* Themes:
- Set sort arrows in CSS
- Set menu button arrows in CSS
- Make scrollbars larger
- Supprt circular menubuttons
* CSS:
- Implement transform-origin
- Support overlines on text
- Support colors in cross-fade()
- More complete text-decoration-line support
* Text layout:
- Use subpixel positioning with new enough cairo
* Inspector:
- Fix slowness in navigation
- Redo the controllers and shortcuts pages
* Accessibility:
- Create AT context objects lazily
* Wayland:
- Fix decoration negotiation under kwin
* GSK:
- Optimize gradient shaders
- Implement repeating gradients in shaders
* Translation updates
- Czech
- Greek
- Hungarian
- Persian
- Punjabi
- Romanian
- Swedish
- Ukrainian
Overview of Changes in 4.0.2
============================
* GtkAboutDialog:
- Set icon size for the logo
- Fix initial focus to be the same as in GTK 3
* GtkImage:
- Update icons on scale change
* Wayland: Fix crashes with touch and tablet events
* Windows:
- Fix surface and geometry computation
- Remove layered window usage
* MacOS: Support stylus devices
* Themes:
- Adwaita: Remove edge highlights
- Adwaita: Update image assets
- Make Adwaita-dark available as standalone theme
- Make HighContrastInverse the dark variant of HighContrast
* Docs:
- Complete GtkAspectFrame docs
- Clarify migration docs for widget signals
* Inspector:
- Fix a critical with the recorder
- Fix a crash with treeviews
- Show overlay layout properties
- Add a legend for the layout overlay
* Build:
- Fix build with gcc 11
- Support building without sassc
* Translation updates:
Basque
Czech
Friulian
Polish
Romanian
Spanish
Swedish
Ukrainian
Overview of Changes in 4.0.1
============================
* GtkPopover
- Center titles
- Fix menu item alignment with submenus
* GtkVideo
- Fix up autoplay semantics
- Respect pixel aspect ratio
- Get GL textures from gstreamer
* GtkCenterLayout
- Fix handling of expanding center child
* GtkSettings
- Change gtk-cursor-aspect-ratio to double
- Fix the default value of gtk-print-backends
* GtkGestureStylus
- Convert motion history to surface coordinates
* GL renderer
- Various optimizations
- Avoid leaking shader objects
* Adwaita
- Fine-tune flat buttons
- Improve contrast of dim-label
- Improve contrast of controls in headers
* Docs
- Add various missing types
- Add DND examples
- Correct css docs for several widgets
- Improve GtkVideo docs
- Update migration docs for GtkClipboard
- Improve migration docs for event controllers
- Add migration docs for GtkBuilder
* gtk4-builder-tool
- Remove GtkCheckButton::draw-indicator
- Fix a buffer overrun
- Remove GtkToolbar::toolbar-style
* Demos
- Don't put the search bar in the scroll area
- Make the OpenGL demos work with OpenGL ES
* X11
- Fix a possible crash
* Build
- Fix vulkan reference in pc file
- Fix build with certain Vulkan versions
* Windows:
- Fix build with Visual Studio 2013
* OS X:
- Fix build on OS X
- Fix crash on Mojave
- Fix a window sizing issue
- Fix build on OS X 10.12
- Add a CI build
* Translation updates:
Basque
Brazilian Portuguese
Catalan
Galician
German
Japanese
Lithuanian
Persian
Punjabi
Romanian
Ukrainian