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| Overview of Changes in GTK+ 1.3.1:
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| 
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| * GTK+ now uses the Pango library for text manipulation. All
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|   strings in GTK+ now are in Unicode, languages written
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|   from right-to-left, and complex-text languages are now supported.
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| * The gdk-pixbuf library for image loading and manipulation is 
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|   has been integrated with GTK+.
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| * The GTK+ object system has mostly been moved to GLib, separating
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|   it from the GUI code. Many significant enhancements have been
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|   made as part of this.
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| * A new text widget is now included. This started as a port
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|   of the Tk text widget, and includes such features of the Tk
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|   text widget as tags, marks, and unicode text support. It
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|   has been enhanced to support model-view operation and the
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|   full power of Pango.
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| * The GDK library has been extensively revised to support multiple
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|   windowing systems. The only fully functional backend in 1.3.1
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|   is the X11 backend, however, ports to Win32, Linux-framebuffer,
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|   Nano-X, BeOS, and MacOS exist in various states of completion,
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|   and at least some of these will be finished and integrated in 
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|   before the final GTK+-2.0 release.
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| * 32-bit coordinates are now supported throughout GDK and GTK+
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|   (they are emulated where not supported by the windowing system.)
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| * Many minor bug fixes and enhancements. Incompatible changes
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|   are documented in docs/Changes-2.0.txt
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| 
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| Overview of Changes in GTK+ 1.2.8:
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| 
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| * GNU Make 3.79 bug workaround
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| * FAQ and tutorial updates and improvements
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| * Miscellaneous bug fixes: CList, Calendar, rc-files, FontSelection
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| 
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| Overview of Changes in GTK+ 1.2.7:
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| 
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| * More header cleanups.
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| * Fixed activation bug for insensitive widgets.
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| * Locale fixes to RC file parsing code.
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| * Miscellaneous bugfixes for Item Factory, CList, CTree, X Selections,
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|   HScale, VScale, Pixmap, Viewport, OptionMenu, Entry and Notebook.
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| * Upgrade to libtool 1.3.4.
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| 
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| Overview of Changes in GTK+ 1.2.6:
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| 
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| * container queue_resize fixes
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| * gtk[vh]scale: minor fixups
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| * rename idle to idle_id in testgtk to avoid conflicts with 
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|   broken libs
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| * More consistant naming of gtkrc files
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| * Added language support: ro, uk
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| 
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| Overview of Changes in GTK+ 1.2.5:
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| 
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| * more GtkCTree and GtkWindow bug fixes.
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| * more redraw/resize queue fixes, better expose event
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|   discarding code.
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| * more miscellaneous bugs fixed
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| * new configure.in option --disable-rebuilds to completely disable
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|   rebuilds of autogenerated sources.
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| * check for 5.002 now, to avoid failing autogeneration build rules due
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|   to old perl versions.
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| * fonts (and fontsets) are cached now.
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| * more autogeneration make rules and dependancy fixups, we should be
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|   save with autogeneration up to make -j12 now ;)
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| * new window position GTK_WIN_POS_CENTER_ALWAYS, which will recenter the
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|   GtkWindow on every size change.
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| * major rework of window manager hints handling code, fixed a bunch of
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|   races with the new resizing code.
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| * the new wm hints and resizing code is absolutely perfect and bug free now,
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|   it only lacks testing ;)
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| * fixed up various rc style memory prolems.
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| * gtk_widget_modify_style() now properly changes the style of realized widgets
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|   and references the style passed into it. if people worked around this bug,
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|   this will introduce a slight memory leak in their code.
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|   The code should typically look like:
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|             GtkRcStyle *rc_style = gtk_rc_style_new ();
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|             [...]
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|             gtk_widget_modify_style (widget, rc_style);
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|             gtk_rc_style_unref (rc_style);
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| * fix problems with positioning menus offscreen.
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| * GtkText fixes for some crashes and drawing errors.
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| * Better handling for unexpected window destroys in GDK and GTK+.
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|   This should make it possible to use a GtkPlug and catch the
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|   case where its parent socket is randomly killed.
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| * FAQ updates.
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| * FileSelection i18n patches, RadioButton fixups.
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| * many translation improvements.
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| * miscellaneous other bugs fixed.
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| 
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| Overview of Changes in GTK+ 1.2.4:
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| 
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| * DnD improvements (drags can be canceled with Esc now).
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| * suppressed configure event reordering in Gdk.
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| * rewrite of Gtk's configure event handling.
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| * major improvements for the object argument system (Elena Devdariani).
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| * major bugfixes for threading, GtkNotebook, GtkItemFactory, GtkCList and
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|   GtkCTree.
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| * tutorial/FAQ updates, new file generation.txt on autogenerated sources.
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| * configure's --with-glib= is "officially" unsupported.
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| * upgrade to libtool 1.3.3.
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| * various buglets fixed.
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| 
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| Overview of Changes in GTK+ 1.2.3:
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| 
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| * Upgrade to libtool 1.3
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| * Check for dgettext (for systems with old versions of GNU Gettext)
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| * Many bug fixes (see ChangeLog for details)
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| 
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| Overview of Changes in GTK+ 1.2.2:
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| 
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| * Improved Dnd behaviour with Motif applications.
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| * Bug fixes for the Gtk selection code.
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| * Minor bug fixes to the Gdk Atom cache and Dnd code (with --display option).
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| * Bug fixes and leak plugs for the Gdk IM code.
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| * Added gtk_object_get() facility to retrive object arguments easily.
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|   The var args list expects ("arg-name", &value) pairs.
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| * Fixed mapping for GdkInputCondition<->GIOCondition, this should fix
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|   problems where closed pipes were no longer signalling GDK_INPUT_READ on
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|   systems with a native poll().
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| * Some cleanups to GtkLabel's memory allocation code (shouldn't leak memory
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|   anymore).
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| * We don't attempt to lookup xpm color "None" anymore, this should prevent
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|   eXodus (commercial X windows server) from popping up a color dialog every
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|   time a transparent pixmap is created.
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| * Fixed bug where Gtk timout/idle handlers would execute without the global
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|   Gdk lock being held.
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| * Other minor bug fixes.
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| 
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| Overview of Changes in GTK+ 1.2.1:
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| 
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| * Many Bug fixes have been applied to the menu and accelerator code.
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| * GtkItemFactory can "adopt" foreign menu items now and manage their
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|   accelerator installation. This is often required to get GtkItemFactory
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|   like accelerator propagation between different windows with the same
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|   menu heirarchy and for centralized parsing and saving of accelerators.
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| * GtkCList/GtkCTree buttons should always display correctly now.
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| * Miscellaneous other bug fixes.
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| 
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| What's New in GTK+ 1.2.0 (since 1.0.x):
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| 
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| * New widgets: GtkFontSelector, GtkPacker, GtkItemFactory, GtkCTree,
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|   GtkInvisible, GtkCalendar, GtkLayout, GtkPlug, GtkSocket
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| * Many new features and robustness for existing widgets
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| * Theme support
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| * New DND implementation
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| * Internationalization of standard dialogs
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| * New key binding system
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| * Tearoff menus and menu accelerators
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| * Wide character support for entry and text
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| * Resizing code has been overhauled
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| * Queued redraws of partial areas
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| * Far better support for object arguments
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| * Speed optimizations
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| * Runtime loading of dynamic modules
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| * Support for GLib log domains
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| * Tutorial improvements
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| * A bug fix or two
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| 
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| Overview of Changes in GTK+ 1.1.16:
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| 
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| * Major fixes and improvements for handlebox
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| * A change to the way widget->requisition works. Now,
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|   widget->requisition is always what the widget requested,
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|   unmodified by the usize. See Changes-1.2.txt for details.
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|   This correct various bugs with gtk_widget_set_usize().
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| * Fixes for XIM on X11R5 systems
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| * Don't allow cut-and-paste of text in password-style entries
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| * --enable-debug is now on by default for the development releaes.
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|   (When compiling for "production", use --enable-debug=minimum)
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| * Handle systems where Helvetica is not present more gracefully
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| * Fixes for memory leaks
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| * CList and CTree fixes
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| * Bug fixes for drawing problems. 
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| * Miscellaneous bug fixes to GtkLabel, GtkCList, GtkCTree,
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|   GtkColorsel, Focusing, DND
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| * Tutorial improvements
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| 
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| Overview of Changes in GTK+ 1.1.15:
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| 
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| * Tutorial Updates
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| * Added --libs gthread to gtk-config 
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| * Bug fixes
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| 
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| What is new in GTK+ 1.1.14:
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| 
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| * Additions to docs/Changes-1.2.txt
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| * Just warn when loading theme engine fails
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| * CLAMP GtkScale digits to a meaningful range
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| * GTK_LOCALDIR is now defined in a better fashion
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| * New functions (feature freeze, we know...):
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|     gtk_menu_set_title()
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|     gtk_toggle_button_get_active()
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| * Some locale fixups in gtkrc code
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| * Fixes to make gtk_radio_button_set_group() keep only
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|   one radio button in the group active
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| * Foreign windows are now always treated as viewable; this fixes
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|   a problem where updating didn't occure properly in GtkPlug
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| * DND fixes for 64 bit architectures, and for specifying operations 
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|   with modifier keys.
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| * Major revisions to GtkLayout: avoid having to create window
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|   for NO_WINDOW children, adjust allocations of children as 
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|   scrolled so queued draws work, and a resize is queued instead
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|   of allocating directly in a put() or move()
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| 
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| What is new in GTK+ 1.1.13:
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| 
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| * Dnd and selection bug fixes and memory purification.
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| * Widget sensitivity fixups.
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| * Tooltips windows are now named "gtk-tooltips" so rc file rules
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|   can match tooltips windows. Fixed interaction of tooltips and NO_WINDOW
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|   widgets.
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| * Spin buttons now update their values upon value retrival.
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| * Overhaul of the resizing vs. redrawing logic to reduce redrawing needs
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|   a lot. Gtk makes full use of the draw_area coalescing code now, which
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|   got minorly improved as well.
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| * Containers map their Gdk windows after their children now to reduce
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|   expose event generation.
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| * Gdk event queue fixups, this solves the double-click problems people were
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|   recently having.
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| * Account for the fact that GSource's are only properly reentrant from
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|   within dispatch(), thus we don't do Gdk event processing from within
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|   check() or prepare() anymore.
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| * Rc files feature a bg_pixmap value of "<none>" now.
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| * Improved session management support in Gdk.  
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| * Automatic disabling of NLS if no gettext is found should work now.
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| * Removed deprecated functions, docs/Changes-1.2.txt gives an overview.
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| * Gtk+ development now requires GNU autoconf 2.13, GNU automake 1.4
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|   and GNU libtool 1.2d.
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| * More bug fixes all over the place.
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| 
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| What is new in GTK+ 1.1.12:
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| 
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| * Korean translation added
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| * Fixed memory leaks
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| * A few other bug fixes
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| 
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| What is new in GTK+ 1.1.11:
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| 
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| * Dutch, Japanese, Swedish, Polish, and Norwegian translations
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| * Removed deprecated _interp variants: gtk_container_foreach_interp, 
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|   gtk_idle_add_interp, gtk_timeout_add_interp, gtk_signal_connect_interp
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| * Lots of cast corrections
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| * Many fixes 
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| 
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| What is new in GTK+ 1.1.9:
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| 
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| * Check for broken glibc 2.0 mb functions and avoid them
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| * Label and Entry display fixes 
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| * Move main thread back to GDK, for locking when translating events
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| * Bug fixes
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| 
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| What is new in GTK+ 1.1.8:
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| 
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| * Added support for gettext and the localization of the standard
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|   dialogs.
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| * Added line-wrapping for the label, and JUSTIFY_FILL
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| * Support reordering via drag and drop in  CList and CTree.
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| * Replaced GtkDrawWindow widget with a GTK_USER_DRAW flag
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| * Extended gtkpaned API to support minimum sizes and proportional
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|   resizing.
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| * Changed the handling of shared memory segments so as to 
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|   remove the need for GTK+ to set up signal handlers.
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| * Re-implemented event loop in terms of the event loop
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|   that has been added to GLib 1.1.8
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| * Added 'grab_focus' signal to allow keyboard accelerators
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|   for entries.
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| * Load locale specific RC files if present.
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| * Bug fixes.
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| 
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| What is new in GTK+ 1.1.7:
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| 
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| * Fixed memory mis-allocation in default files code
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| * Various event handling fixes
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| * Wide character support for entry and text
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| * Destroy widgets _after_ propagating unrealize signals through 
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|   widget heirarchy
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| * Only build XIM-support if available
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| * Tutorial and examples updates
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| * Added gtk_drag_source_unset()
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| 
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| What is new in GTK+ 1.1.6:
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| 
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| * The signal system now features emission hooks whith special semantics,
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|   refer to the ChangeLog for this.
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| * Minor? speedups and memory reductions to the emission handling of the
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|   signal system.
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| * _interp() function variants are deprecated now. the corresponding *_full()
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|   variants are provided for a long time now.
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| * Dnd abort timeout increased to 10 minutes.
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| * GtkScrolledWindow inherits from GtkBin now.
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| * GTK_POLICY_NEVER is implemented for scrolled windows now.
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| * Lots of API clean ups.
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| * Incremental freezing abilities.
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| * Integrated widgets from the GNOME tree: GtkLayout, GtkPlug and GtkSocket.
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| * New window functions for transient relationship, default size, and 
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|   geometry hints
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| * Default rc files are now read in (<sysconfdir/etc/gtkrc and ~/.gtkrc)
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|   GTK_RC_FILES environment variable and functions are provided to configure
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|   this behavior
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| * Read doc/Changes-1.2.txt to properly adapt your code.
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| * Bug Fixes.
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| 
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| What is new in GTK+ 1.1.5:
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| 
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| * Theme integration
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| * Widget style modification is now handled through GtkRcStyles
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| * GtkPixmaps now grey out pixmaps when insensitive
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| * Notebook enhancements
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| * Shadow configurability for menubars and handleboxes
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| * DND enhancements
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| * gtkfilesel now supports automounters better
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| * Implementation of expose compression
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| * Queued redraws of partial areas
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| * Scrolledwindow (+Viewport) source incompatibilities, children that are added
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|   to a scrolled window don't get an automatic viewport anymore. a convenience
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|   function gtk_scrolled_window_add_with_viewport() is suplied for this task
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| * Deprecated functions will now issue a message, informing the programmer about
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|   the use of this function. These functions will get removed in future versions
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| * Non-functional functions got removed entirely
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| * gtk_widget_new() and gtk_object_new() will now auto-construct new objects.
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|   A new function gtk_object_default_construct() is provided now which should
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|   be called after every gtk_type_new() to perfom the auto-construction
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| * Improved argument support of several widgets
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| * Bug Fixes
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| 
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| What is new in GTK+ 1.1.3:
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| 
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| * GtkCList/GtkCTree now have the ability to:
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|     - hide/show individual columns
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|     - disable/enable column resizing
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|     - set min and max for column widths
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|     - set expander style of the ctree
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|     - set/get row and cell styles
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|     - set spacing between tree expander and cell contents in ctree
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|     - toggle auto_resize for columns
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| * Must enhanced DND support, removed old DND code
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| * Idle functions are now implemented via GHook, giving a slight speed
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|   improvement
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| * An environment variable GTK_MODULES which takes a colon seperated
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|   list of module names GTK+ will now automatically load at gtk_init() startup
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| * GtkFontSel now has support for an extra 'base' filter
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| * New function gdk_window_set_root_origin to get the real geometry taking
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|   into account window manager offsets
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| * New function gtk_text_set_line_wrap to toggle line wrapping
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| * New function gtk_widget_add_events which safely adds additional
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|   events to a widget's event mask
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| * New function gdk_event_get_time to get the timestamp from a generic
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|   event
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| * New widget GtkCalendar
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| * New widget GtkInvisible - InputOnly offscreen windows used for reliable
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|   pointer grabs and selection handling in DND code
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| * New functions gtk_object_remove_no_notify[_by_id] to remove a certain
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|   data portion without invokation of its destroy notifier 
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| * gtk_spin_button_construct is now deprecated, use gtk_spin_button_configure
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|   instead 
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| * gtk_clist_set_border is now deprecated, use gtk_clist_set_shadow_type 
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|   instead
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| * Removed functions gtk_object_set_data_destroy[_by_id] 
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| * Documentation additions/updates 
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| * HTML and plain text files are now included in the distribution
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| * Bug fixes, typeness corrections, and general fixups
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| 
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| What is new in GTK+ 1.1.2:
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| 
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| * Gtk+ is now featuring runtime loading of dynamic modules via the
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|   --gtk-modules= command line switch. such modules have to export a
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|   G_MODULE_EXPORT void gtk_module_init (gint *argc, gchar ***argv);
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|   function which will be invoked to initialize the module. since such
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|   modules may create new widget types, they are always resident.
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| * The tutorial has been updated again.
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| * Changes to menus including tearoff menus and accelerators.
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| * Better support for modal dialogs.
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| * Removed CAN_FOCUS by default from scrollbars and button children of toolbar.
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| * More improvements and fixes for GtkCList and GtkCTree (i.e. row sorting).
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| * GtkCTree rows can be unselectable now.
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| * The GtkCTree API has undergone major renames (see ChangeLog entry from Lars
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|   Hamann on Tue Aug 18 00:29:13 1998).
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| * A bunch of varargs functions changed to get va_lists working on systems that
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|   implement va_lists as arrays.
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| * Improvements to the gdkrgb code.
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| * Improvements to Gdk color handling so we greatly reduce server traffic and
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|   don't leak colors anymore.
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| * Improved internal widget tree iterators (the GtkContainer::foreach signal
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|   vanished because of this).
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| * Option menus can have the keyboard focus now.
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| * More fixups to the text widget.
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| * GtkFileSelection should behave much more nicely in combination with AFS now.
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| * Support for label underlining.
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| * Support for GLib 1.1.3 log domains.
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| * Documentation improvements.
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| * Configuration fixes on various platforms.
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| * Miscellaneous fixes to XInput support.
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| * Build with shared library dependencies on Linux
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| * Fix for a major bug in the type systems memory allocation code that could
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|   cause random crashes.
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| * Libtool update to version 1.2b.
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| * Lots of bugfixes and cleanups again ;)
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| 
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| 
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| What is new in GTK+ 1.1.1:
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| 
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| * Tutorial updates and additions.
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| * Key binding support for GtkListItems and GtkList.
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| * Extended selection mode and autoscrolling for GtkLists.
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| * A GtkCtree now operates on GtkCTreeNode* structures rather than GList*.
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| * GtkCTreeNodes can now be created from GNode trees.
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| * Bug fixes for GtkNotebook, GtkCList, GtkCombo and GdkWindow reparentation.
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| 
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| 
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| What is new in GTK+ 1.1.0:
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| 
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| * New widget GtkFontSelector.
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| * New featurefull progress bar.
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| * New container widget GtkPacker.
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| * New object GtkItemFactory, GtkMenuFactory is deprecated.
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| * New key binding system, configurable via rcfiles, similar to styles.
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| * New widget GtkCTree with drag selections and keyboard movement and
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|   and horizontal scrolling. Features also implemented for GtkCList.
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| * Significant speedups to widget creation and destruction through caching
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|   colormap and visual queries to the XServer.
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| * Speedups for type creation and especially gtk_type_is_a() checks.
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| * Speedups in signal lookup, creation and emissions and connection handling.
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| * Minor speedups with object data allocation and destruction.
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| * Additions to the signal handling API (e.g. *_emitv).
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| * Support for rc-file reparsing.
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| * Resizing logic is now implemented on container widget basis, rather than
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|   for toplevel GtkWindows only.
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| * Buttons support relief styles now.
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| * Some widgets are now allocated through memchunks to behave more memory wise.
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| * Newly included file gtkfeatures.h which defines compatibility macros to
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|   test for certain API features upon program compilation.
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| * Child arguments support for container widgets.
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| * Far better support for object arguments, revamp of the underlying
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|   mechanism for speed and reusability. Child/object arguments don't
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|   need to be preceeded by the "GtkType::" portion anymore.
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| * Removed GtkAcceleratorTable in favour of GtkAccelGroup, accelerator display
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|   is now performed by a new widget GtkAccelLabel.
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| * Overhaul of the resizing code. Resizing behaviour can now be specified
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|   on GtkContainer basis, so the underlying algorithm isn't only available
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|   for GtkWindows.
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| * GtkTables are now fully resizable.
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| * The GtkType system now supports an additional base class initialization
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|   function.
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| * GtkStyles and key bindings can now be looked up depending on the base
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|   types of a widget, through a new keyword `class' in rc files.
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| * GtkButton derives from GtkBin (finally).  
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| * More descriptive error messages on rc parsing.  
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| * Runtime information is available to query enum/flag definition values.
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| * Upgrade to libtool-1.2
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| * Legions of bug fixes, memory leaks, segfaults, of-by-something errors...
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|   including those that already went into the 1.0.x branch.
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| * A big bunch of features and cosmetic fixups that just got lost in
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|   the masses of changes.
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