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authorOwen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>2004-03-16 20:22:55 +0000
committerOwen Taylor <otaylor@src.gnome.org>2004-03-16 20:22:55 +0000
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=== Released 2.4.0 ===
Tue Mar 16 13:29:58 2004 Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com> * === Released 2.4.0 === * configure.in: Version 2.4.0, interface age 0; require glib-2.4.0, pango-1.4.0. * NEWS: Updates * README.in: Updates
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Release notes
=============
+* 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.
+
* As compared to GTK+-1.2, the default configuration of GTK+-2 has been
stream-lined to reduce confusion on the part of new users or users
coming from other environments. Users used to older versions of
@@ -62,7 +67,7 @@ Release notes
from the library, on others not. In no case can applications
use these private symbols.
-* GTK+-2.3 now requires version 2 of Xft; old fashioned core X
+* GTK+-2.4 now requires version 2 of Xft; old fashioned core X
fonts are no longer supported.
* There is a bug in the Xft library in XFree86-4.1 and possibly previous
@@ -83,16 +88,19 @@ Release notes
* 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
+ 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 may want to set the G_BROKEN_FILENAMES environment variable:
+ you may want to set the G_FILENAME_ENCODING environment variable:
- G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1
- export G_BROKEN_FILENAMES
+ G_FILENAME_ENCODING=@local
+ export G_FILENAME_ENCODING
- Best integration of GTK+-2.2 with the environment is achieved by
+ (Earlier versions of GLib-2.x required a different environment variable
+ setting; G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1 to achieve the same effect; this
+ is still supported, but G_FILENAME_ENCODING is preferred.)
+ Best integration of GTK+-2.4 with the environment is achieved by
using a UTF-8 locale.
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