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@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@ See the file 'INSTALL' 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. How to report bugs |