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GTK 4.0 Toolkit Officially Released

posted by martyb on Thursday December 17 2020, @06:02AM   

takyon writes:

GTK 4.0 Toolkit Officially Released

GTK 4.0 features new widgets and reworks to existing elements, integrated media playback support, GPU acceleration improvements like work on its new Vulkan renderer, and better macOS support are some of the leading highlights. Some other additions include data transfer improvements, overhauling shaders, GPU accelerated scrolling, custom entry widgets are easy to make, OpenGL rendering improvements beyond the Vulkan work, restoring work on HTMl5 Broadway, better Windows support, and more.

GTK 4.0 is now considered stable for applications to begin supporting it. GTK 3 will continue to be maintained for the "foreseeable future" while GTK 2 is no longer going to be supported beyond one more point release.

GTK 4.0.

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• Re:Shame, GTK has been going downhill Re:Shame, GTK has been going downhill (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2020, @02:19PM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2020, @02:19PM (#1088537)

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_version_history [wikipedia.org]
  https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_6.0_Release [wiki.qt.io]

  There is no stability to be found when people get paid for constantly reinventing the wheel.
  An intermediate layer to isolate program logic from GUI toolkit specifics is a must these days, for anything that need be supported long-term.

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• Re:Shame, GTK has been going downhill Re:Shame, GTK has been going downhill (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2020, @03:01PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2020, @03:01PM (#1088548)

  show us the code?

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  • Re:Shame, GTK has been going downhill (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2020, @03:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2020, @03:27PM (#1088558)

    You are welcome.
    GTK+1, GTK+2, GTK+3, scripting, and commandline scripting mode, all transparently supported through an intermediate layer:
    https://github.com/wjaguar/mtPaint/tree/master [github.com]

    Documentation on how it works inside: https://github.com/wjaguar/mtPaint/blob/master/doc/vcode.t2t [github.com]

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