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The GTK+ guys have released GTK+ 2.16. As always, this new release is source and binary compatible with the previous GTK+ release. In case you don’t know: “GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable for projects ranging from small one-off tools to complete application suites.”

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  1. 2009-03-16 9:04 pm
    VistaUser

    There seems to be little excitement about this release, so a question: What are its major benefits apart from a step towards GTK3?

    Does it ad new featuers that allow new things to be done? is it faster? Better integration with Windows?

    Incremental updates of software are good, but I had expected there to be some enthusiasm at the release of such an important toolkit. Instead it took a few days for any site to report its release. Weird.

    (btw, I am not complaining, just nonplussed.)

    A further question, will the next Major release of GTK be GTK 3, or will there be like a GTK2.18 first?

    Edited 2009-03-16 21:05 UTC

    • 2009-03-16 9:41 pm
      YEPHENAS

      There seems to be little excitement about this release, so a question: What are its major benefits apart from a step towards GTK3?

      This release has nothing to do with GTK+ 3.0. Development for GTK+ 3.0 takes place in different branches, for example:

      http://live.gnome.org/GTK+/NewThemeApi/Hackfest/Branches

      Does it ad new featuers that allow new things to be done? is it faster? Better integration with Windows?

      It’s linked in the article:

      http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2009-March/msg00075.html

      Section “What’s new in GTK+ 2.16”.

      A further question, will the next Major release of GTK be GTK 3, or will there be like a GTK2.18 first?

      Since there will be at least GNOME 2.26 (on wednesday) and GNOME 2.28 before GNOME 3.0 (AFAIK), I assume that there will be a GTK 2.18 release, too. (usually 6 months release cycle)

  2. 2009-03-17 3:37 am
    lemur2

    FTA:

    GTK+ is free software and part of the GNU Project. However, the licensing terms for GTK+, the GNU LGPL, allow it to be used by all developers, including those developing proprietary software, without any license fees or royalties. GTK+ is the only 100% free-of-cost open source industrial-strength GUI toolkit available today.

    Is that claim entirely correct? I have no qualms with the first sentence … but isn’t the latest release of Qt (Qt 4.5 and later, and also Qt Creator) also licensed under the LGPL license?

    Did I read that wrong, or are the GTK+ authors trying to claim that Qt and Qt Creator somehow do not qualify as an “open source industrial-strength GUI toolkit”?

    Obligatory supporting links:

    http://dot.kde.org/2009/03/03/qt-software-releases-lgpled-qt-45-and…

    http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/9076_Qt_45-Qt_Creator_and_…

    Edited 2009-03-17 03:42 UTC

    • 2009-03-17 4:50 am
      Rahul

      Seems the text from older announcements are being re-used here. Just drop a mail to the GTK release engineer sending the announcement.