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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ General Information =================== -This is GLib version 2.18.1. GLib is the low-level core +This is GLib version 2.19.0. GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis for projects such as GTK+ and GNOME. It provides data structure handling for C, portability wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event loop, threads, @@ -24,6 +24,21 @@ Installation See the file 'INSTALL' +Notes about GLib 2.20 +===================== + +^ The functions for launching applications (e.g. g_app_info_launch() + + friends) now passes a FUSE file:// URI if possible (requires gvfs + with the FUSE daemon to be running and operational). With gvfs 2.26, + FUSE file:// URIs will be mapped back to gio URIs in the GFile + constructors. The intent of this change is to better integrate + POSIX-only applications, see bug #528670 for the rationale. The + only user-visible change is when an application needs to examine an + URI passed to it (e.g. as a positional parameter). Instead of + looking at the given URI, the application will now need to look at + the result of g_file_get_uri() after having constructed a GFile + object with the given URI. + Notes about GLib 2.18 ===================== |