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Update various README files to refer to git instead of svn.
Also discontinue ChangeLog files.
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=== ChangeLog discontinued ===

With the move to git, GTK+ is switching from a ChangeLog file
to relying on commit messages to provide change history. Please
see README.commits for guidance on the expected message format.

2009-03-29 Christian Persch <chpe@gnome.org>

Bug 577224 – crash when setting new icon after setting icon in
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http://developer.gnome.org

including information about using Subversion with GNOME:
Information about using git with GNOME can be found here:

http://developer.gnome.org/tools/svn.html
http://live.gnome.org/GitMigration

In order to get SVN gtk+ installed on your system, you need to have
the most recent SVN versions of glib, pango, and atk installed as well.
In order to get GIT gtk+ installed on your system, you need to have
the most recent GIT versions of glib, pango, and atk installed as well.
The installation process of these libraries is similar to that of gtk+, but
needs to be fulfilled prior to installation of gtk+.

If at all possible, please use SVN to get the latest development version of
gtk+ and glib. You can do the following to get glib and gtk+ from SVN:
If at all possible, please use GIT to get the latest development version of
gtk+ and glib. You can do the following to get glib and gtk+ from GIT:

$ svn checkout http://svn.gnome.org/svn/glib/trunk glib
$ svn checkout http://svn.gnome.org/svn/pango/trunk pango
$ svn checkout http://svn.gnome.org/svn/atk/trunk atk
$ svn checkout http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gtk+/trunk gtk+
$ git clone git://git.gnome.org/glib
$ git clone git://git.gnome.org/pango
$ git clone git://git.gnome.org/atk
$ git clone git://git.gnome.org/gtk+

To compile the SVN version of gtk+ on your system, you will need to take
To compile the GIT version of gtk+ on your system, you will need to take
several steps to setup the tree for compilation. You can do all these
steps at once by running:

gtk+$ ./autogen.sh

Basically this does the following for you:

gtk+$ aclocal; automake; autoconf

The above commands create the `configure' script. Now you
run the `configure' script in `gtk+/' to create all Makefiles.
run the `configure' script in `gtk+/' to create all Makefiles.
More information about that in `INSTALL'.

Before running `autogen.sh' or `configure', make sure you have libtool
in your path.
Before running `autogen.sh' or `configure', make sure you have libtool
in your path.

Note that autogen.sh runs configure for you. If you wish to pass
options like `--prefix=/usr' to `configure' you can give those options
to `autogen.sh' and they will be passed on to `configure'.

For information about submitting patches and committing changes
to SVN, see the `README' and `README.commits' files. In particular,
don't, under any circumstances, commit anything to SVN before
For information about submitting patches and pushing changes
to GIT, see the `README' and `README.commits' files. In particular,
don't, under any circumstances, push anything to GIT before
reading and understanding `README.commmits'.
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range [lower, upper - page_size]. This has always been the documented
behaviour, and the recommended practice is to set page_size to 0
when using adjustments for simple scalar values, like in a slider
or spin button.
or spin button.

* gdk-pixbuf will use GIO for mime type detection if possible. For
this to work, shared-mime-info needs to be installed and XDG_DATA_DIRS
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* The gtk_notebook_set/get_group_id() functions were found to be insufficient
and have been deprecated in favour of gtk_notebook_set/get_group().

* The move-focus signal has been moved to GtkWidget, to unify the
various implementations of this signal in specific widgets. Great care
* The move-focus signal has been moved to GtkWidget, to unify the
various implementations of this signal in specific widgets. Great care
has been taken to make sure that all code using this signal continues
to work.

* An unused and hardly visible GtkFrame has been removed from the menu
widget hierarchy when GtkComboBox::appears-as-list style property is
set. Any RC file applying a different style to any widget below the
widget path "gtk-combobox-popup-window.GtkFrame" should take into
* An unused and hardly visible GtkFrame has been removed from the menu
widget hierarchy when GtkComboBox::appears-as-list style property is
set. Any RC file applying a different style to any widget below the
widget path "gtk-combobox-popup-window.GtkFrame" should take into
account that the frame no longer exists.

* The external print preview application used by GtkPrintOperationPreview
is now passed the print settings on the command line with the
--print-settings parameter pointing to a temp file containing the
settings. The preview application assumes ownership of the file and
should delete it once it does not need it anymore. The --print-settings
commandline option is understood by Evince 0.9.0 and newer. To use a
different print preview application, change the gtk-print-preview-command
* The external print preview application used by GtkPrintOperationPreview
is now passed the print settings on the command line with the
--print-settings parameter pointing to a temp file containing the
settings. The preview application assumes ownership of the file and
should delete it once it does not need it anymore. The --print-settings
commandline option is understood by Evince 0.9.0 and newer. To use a
different print preview application, change the gtk-print-preview-command
setting in your gtkrc file, e.g. gtk-print-preview-command = "ggv %f"

* GtkMenuShell is now defined as an abstract type. It was already
documented as an abstract class, and there is little reason to
* GtkMenuShell is now defined as an abstract type. It was already
documented as an abstract class, and there is little reason to
instantiate it.

* The GtkTooltips struct (this is the old tooltips API) is now considered
private. Code that used to access this struct, in particular the
tips_data_list field, will need to change. All of the old tooltips
API has been deprecated in favour of a new implementation and
API. This affects all of the gtk_tooltips_ functions, and functions
API. This affects all of the gtk_tooltips_ functions, and functions
which take a GtkTooltips argument, such as gtk_tool_item_set_tooltip()
and gtk_menu_tool_button_set_arrow_tooltip().

* The memory management of the GtkRecentManager object has been changed,
as using the screen didn't guarantee that the singleton instance was
correctly destroyed. The screen-related functions have been deprecated,
and should not be used anymore; the GtkRecentManager instance returned by
the gtk_recent_manager_get_default() function is guaranteed to be valid
for the entire lifetime of an application.

* A number of interfaces that have been superseded by newer interfaces for
a long time have finally been deprecated. This includes
* A number of interfaces that have been superseded by newer interfaces for
a long time have finally been deprecated. This includes
gtk_widget_ref/unref(), gtk_rc_style_ref/unref() and the old file selector.

* The various coordinate systems in use in GtkTreeView widgets have
been clarified in the documentation, and in the cause of doing so,
been clarified in the documentation, and in the cause of doing so,
the functions gtk_tree_view_widget_to_tree_coords() and
gtk_tree_view_tree_to_widget_coords() have been deprecated in
gtk_tree_view_tree_to_widget_coords() have been deprecated in
favour of a new family of gtk_tree_view_convert_ functions.

* gtk_menu_item_remove_submenu() has been deprecated in favour of
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gtk_range_set_[upper/lower]_stepper_sensitivity() functions to
prevent the arrows from being rendered insensitive.

* GtkObject now uses the "floating reference" support in GObject.
* GtkObject now uses the "floating reference" support in GObject.
GTK_OBJECT_IS_FLOATING() will still work, but direct checking
of the GTK_FLOATING flag will no longer detect the floating
of the GTK_FLOATING flag will no longer detect the floating
reference. Details about floating references can be found in the docs:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gobject/gobject-The-Base-Object-Type.html#floating-ref

* Accelerators like (_F) are now stripped from labels when they are
displayed in toolbars. If this is not wanted, the feature can be
* Accelerators like (_F) are now stripped from labels when they are
displayed in toolbars. If this is not wanted, the feature can be
suppressed by inserting a Unicode control character, e.g ZWNJ.

* The pixbuf theme engine can now customize expanders (in GtkTreeView
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* Several new signals have been added to GtkNotebook. Care has been taken
to choose signal names which do not collide with signals added by well-known
derived classes. The names which can no longer be used for signals in
derived classes. The names which can no longer be used for signals in
objects derived from GtkNotebook are page-reordered, page-removed and
page-added.

* Due to the interface changes in the file chooser backend interface,
the GTK+ ABI version has been bumped to 2.10.0. Third-party filesystem
backends have to be ported to the new interface, other modules, such as
theme engines, input method modules or pixbuf loaders have to be rebuilt
* Due to the interface changes in the file chooser backend interface,
the GTK+ ABI version has been bumped to 2.10.0. Third-party filesystem
backends have to be ported to the new interface, other modules, such as
theme engines, input method modules or pixbuf loaders have to be rebuilt
so that they are installed in the right place for GTK+ to find them.


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a clipboard manager following the specification at
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/clipboard-manager-spec
must be running. A sample implementation of such a clipboard manager
is available at
is available at
http://people.imendio.com/andersca/archives/clipboard-manager-0.3.tar.gz
Applications can use the function gdk_display_supports_clipboard_persistence()
Applications can use the function gdk_display_supports_clipboard_persistence()
to find out if clipboard persistence is available.

* Notification on clipboard ownership changes via GdkOwnerChange events
* Notification on clipboard ownership changes via GdkOwnerChange events
requires the XFIXES X extension. Applications can use the function
gdk_display_supports_selection_notification() to find out if ownerchip
change notification is available.

* The icon theme code in GTK+ 2.6 follows the freedesktop.org icon theme
specification. Setting the XDG_DATA_DIRS environtment variable may be
necessary if your icons aren't installed in the default location
* The icon theme code in GTK+ 2.6 follows the freedesktop.org icon theme
specification. Setting the XDG_DATA_DIRS environtment variable may be
necessary if your icons aren't installed in the default location
/usr/share/icons.

* The icon theme code in GTK+ 2.6 can make use of mmap()able cache files
to avoid a lot of disk searching overhead. GTK+ includes a utility named
gtk-update-icon-cache to generate these cache files. For further details,
see the gtk-update-icon-cache man page or the GTK+ documentation.

* To reduce code size and improve efficiency, GTK+, when compiled
with the GNU toolchain, has separate internal and external entry
points for exported functions. The internal names, which begin with
* To reduce code size and improve efficiency, GTK+, when compiled
with the GNU toolchain, has separate internal and external entry
points for exported functions. The internal names, which begin with
IA__, may be seen when debugging a GTK+ program.

* The following functions have been deprecated in GTK+ 2.6:
gdk_pango_context_set_colormap
gtk_cell_renderer_editing_canceled

* The new GtkFileChooser widget emphasizes simplicity and thus does
not provide a navigation entry by default when opening files.
* The new GtkFileChooser widget emphasizes simplicity and thus does
not provide a navigation entry by default when opening files.
Experienced command line users will likely want to make heavy use of
the location dialog brought up by the Control-L key shortcut.

* The GTK+ libraries use an '_' prefix to indicate private symbols that
must not be used by applications. On some platforms, symbols beginning
must not be used by applications. On some platforms, symbols beginning
with prefixes such as _gtk, _gdk, and _pango will be exported
from the library, on others not. In no case can applications
use these private symbols. In addition to that, GTK+ 2.6 makes several
symbols private which were not in any installed header files and
were never intended to be exported.

* The gdk_pixbuf_xlib library included in the contrib/ directory
* The gdk_pixbuf_xlib library included in the contrib/ directory
and the framebuffer GDK backend included in the gdk/linux-fb directory
of GTK+ are provided on an as-is basis and have not been tested at all.
of GTK+ are provided on an as-is basis and have not been tested at all.
No guarantees about the degree of workingness or about future
compatibility are provided.

* On Unix, the assumption of GLib and GTK+ by default is that filenames on
* On Unix, the assumption of GLib and GTK+ by default is that filenames on
the filesystem are encoded in UTF-8 rather than the encoding of the locale;
the GTK+ developers consider that having filenames whose interpretation
depends on the current locale is fundamentally a bad idea.

If you have filenames encoded in the encoding of your locale, then you
If you have filenames encoded in the encoding of your locale, then you
may want to set the G_FILENAME_ENCODING environment variable:

G_FILENAME_ENCODING=@locale
export G_FILENAME_ENCODING

(Earlier versions of GLib 2.x required a different environment variable
setting; G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1 to achieve the same effect; this
setting; G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1 to achieve the same effect; this
is still supported, but G_FILENAME_ENCODING is preferred.)
Best integration of GTK+ 2.6 with the environment is achieved by
Best integration of GTK+ 2.6 with the environment is achieved by
using a UTF-8 locale.

On Windows, filenames passed to GTK+ should always be in UTF-8, as
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When compiling against GTK+ 2.6, applications intended to be
portable to Windows must take the UTF-8 file name encoding into
consideration, and use the gstdio wrappers to access files whose
consideration, and use the gstdio wrappers to access files whose
names have been constructed from strings returned from GTK+ or GLib.


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Bugs should be reported to the GNOME bug tracking system.
(http://bugzilla.gnome.org, product gtk+.) You will need to create an
account for yourself.

In the bug report please include:

* Information about your system. For instance:

- What operating system and version
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And anything else you think is relevant.

* How to reproduce the bug.
* How to reproduce the bug.

If you can reproduce it with one of the tests or demos built with GTK+,
such as demos/gtk-demo/gtk-demo, that would be most convenient. Otherwise,
please include a short test program that exhibits the behavior. As a
last resort, you can also provide a pointer to a larger piece of software
If you can reproduce it with one of the tests or demos built with GTK+,
such as demos/gtk-demo/gtk-demo, that would be most convenient. Otherwise,
please include a short test program that exhibits the behavior. As a
last resort, you can also provide a pointer to a larger piece of software
that can be downloaded.

* If the bug was a crash, the exact text that was printed out when the
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Bug reports containing patches should include the PATCH keyword in their
keyword fields. If the patch adds to or changes the GTK+ programming
interface, the API keyword should also be included.

Patches should be in unified diff form. (The -u option to GNU diff.)
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