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GNOME 2.24 available

[Posted September 24, 2008 by corbet]

From:  Vincent Untz <vuntz-AT-gnome.org>
To:  gnome-announce-list-AT-gnome.org, devel-announce-list-AT-gnome.org
Subject:  Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.24!
Date:  Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:19:35 +0200
Message-ID:  <20080924191935.GF19848@vuntz.net>

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              Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.24!
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Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.24, the
latest version of the popular, multi-platform free desktop
environment and of its developer platform. Released on schedule, to the
day, GNOME 2.24 builds on top of a long series of successful six months
releases to offer the best experience to users and developers.

For more than 10 years now, the project has been seeing a tremendous
amount of work. And as usual, it's hard to come back to a previous
version of GNOME once you've tried GNOME 2.24, which is probably the
best compliment the project can receive.

This six months effort wouldn't have been possible without the whole
GNOME community, made of contributors from all around the world:
hackers, documentors, usability and accessibility specialists,
translators, maintainers, sysadmins, companies, artists, users and
testers. GNOME would not exist without all those people. Thanks very
much to every one of them!

You'll find detailed information about GNOME 2.24 in our release notes:

   http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.24/

Some parties are already happening in various places to celebrate this
release. But tomorrow morning, you can be sure that GNOME contributors
will already be working on their plans for the next version of GNOME,
due in March, 2009.

Enjoy! And be proud of it!

- The GNOME Release Team

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Release Notes and GTK3

Posted Sep 24, 2008 21:41 UTC (Wed) by Darkmere (subscriber, #53695) [Link] (10 responses)

I have to say this, the Gnome team does a wonderful job with their release notes. However, GTK+ v3 is a bit confusing for me. Has there been a plan fleshed out somewhere about it?
Previously it was said to want to "do away" with binary compatibility, however that seems to go against several years of good practice for no real good reason, even if interfaces can slowly be deprecated and phased out. (while retaining compatibility)

So, an upcoming article about the state of the project might be an idea, perhaps a QA with the release team or Stormy Peters now that she's firmly in the saddle?

Release Notes and GTK3

Posted Sep 25, 2008 2:13 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (9 responses)

Refer the following for GTK 3 plans

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2008-Se...

Release Notes and GTK3

Posted Sep 25, 2008 6:18 UTC (Thu) by alankila (guest, #47141) [Link] (8 responses)

Eyes boggle. If I'm reading this correctly, they plan to remove structure field accesses even for public fields. No more

image->visual->depth,

I guess it's

gdkvisual_get_depth(gdkimage_get_visual(image)),

or maybe even

g_object_get_int(g_object_get_object(image, "visual"), "depth").

I don't see the improvement. Hiding private fields may be tenable as nobody is supposed to poke at them anyway, but this seems to go beyond sane.

Release Notes and GTK3

Posted Sep 25, 2008 7:01 UTC (Thu) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link] (2 responses)

If they want C++, I don't see why they don't just use C++.

Release Notes and GTK3

Posted Sep 25, 2008 9:07 UTC (Thu) by kripkenstein (guest, #43281) [Link]

> If they want C++, I don't see why they don't just use C++.

C++ isn't trivially portable and has various other issues. Regardless, at this point in time it would be better to use an even higher-level language. The natural candidate would be Vala, of course.

A combination of Vala and the related projects of GNOME-introspection, automatic bindings generation, etc., for higher-level languages on top of that, would have been a compelling target for GTK3.

Release Notes and GTK3

Posted Sep 25, 2008 14:21 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

That syntax is dramatically worse than C++'s syntax.

Release Notes and GTK3

Posted Sep 25, 2008 7:21 UTC (Thu) by tetromino (guest, #33846) [Link] (3 responses)

If you allow direct access to structure fields, there is basically no sane way to implement new classes in languages such as Python or Java. One of the goals of Gtk+ 3 is to make non-C languages into first-class citizens.

Release Notes and GTK3

Posted Sep 25, 2008 9:28 UTC (Thu) by alankila (guest, #47141) [Link]

Can you expand a bit on this idea? I do not understand what new classes you are talking about, and how does it help to make it more difficult to access the public members?

Release Notes and GTK3

Posted Sep 25, 2008 10:30 UTC (Thu) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link]

If you allow direct access to structure fields, there is basically no sane way to implement new classes in languages such as Python or Java.
That's often true, and yet it is a real annoyance to cruft up the syntax with 'a.setY(b.getX())' instead of 'a.y = b.x', and to write boilerplate methods for every field you want to expose.

C# deals with this in an elegant way by allowing properties with 'get' and 'set' methods which are exposed through the normal syntax. If you don't want the accessor to do anything except set the field, it can be generated for you, so no boilerplate is necessary. I hope other languages will adopt something similar.

Release Notes and GTK3

Posted Sep 25, 2008 11:36 UTC (Thu) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]

Can you propose an use case for this (somebody writing new GTK classes in Java or Python)?
It's not clear to me if you mean mere subclassing in an application's code, or subclassing for writing new classes for others to consume.

Release Notes and GTK3

Posted Sep 25, 2008 7:27 UTC (Thu) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750) [Link]

I guess it's time for some Vala, then :)


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