[Glade-users] Glade 3.6.0 Released

Sat May 9 06:17:48 EDT 2009

Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> Hello hackers !
> 
>    So here we are, like it or not, its release day.
> There are alot of things I havent had time to do lately,
> among them is writing proper release notes - I will do
> that some time this week and blog about it.
> 
> Glade has seen a world of improvement since 3.4, if you
> dont know about it, then I should at least skim over the
> new features and control we offer over your interface.
> 
> Dual Project Formats
> ====================
>    Now projects can be edited in libglade format and in GtkBuilder
>    format, offering you a load of new features only available in
>    GtkBuilder format (also removing access to deprecated widgets).
> 
>    Projects can be converted, the operation is undoable, and can
>    result in data loss when some objects/widgets cant be ported to
>    the target format (classic libglade format projects can always
>    be converted to GtkBuilder format).
> 
> Target Project Version
> ======================
>    Glade now lets you target your GTK+ version for your project,
>    giving you visual feedback and warnings about objects, properties
>    and signals that you may be using that are not available in
>    the targetted version of GTK+.
> 
>    Interestingly Glade 3.6 depends on GTK+ 2.14, but gives you access to GTK+
>    properties from GTK+ 2.16 even if only running against 2.14.
> 
> Access to new objects
> =====================
>    In GtkBuilder format, we have access to a whole new world of objects
>    we've never seen before in Glade:
> 
>      - GtkAction: Represent your UI frontend widget(s) by an Action, actions
>        are a great abstraction for UI components and let you have multiple
>        screen widgets that correspond to a single "action" who all conform
>        to the said actions state.
> 
>      - GTK+ MVC Framework:
>        Now we give you access to GtkTreeView, GtkIconView, GtkComboBox
> (as a view),
>        GtkListStore, GtkTreeStore in Glade. That pretty much says it
> all, I encourage
>        you all to try it, define columns and data for your treemodel,
> define columns
>        and renderers for your treeview, in an all in one treeview editor.
> 
>      - GtkIconFactory:
>        Add your own stock id definitions using an icon factory, define graphics
>        for different widget sizes and widget states.
> 
>      - GtkSizeGroup:
>        Add widgets to logical groups that ensure all members have the same size.
> 
> Sexy New Editors
> ================
>    With a new internal interface, we allow plugins to define editor layouts on a
>    class level basis, now we have customized editors for GtkButton,
> GtkImage, GtkLabel,
>    GtkEntry and many more (and they all have size to fit word wrapping
> property description
>    texts in them).
> 
> The Python Plugin
> =================
>    This is finally worked out into a plugin, its been around for a while now but
>    wasnt publicly/stably released to my knowlage, what it does is allow Glade to
>    introspect and load your python classes properties and signals and add it to
>    the palette automatically (with the use of a one or 2 liner user catalog),
>    documentation coming, or ask Juan Pablo ;-)
> 
> Some Enhancements
> =================
>    - Inspector lets you filter and search the project with an added entry
>      (behaves like DevHelp's search entry but on the project).
> 
>    - You can edit widgets inline with their editor in a dialog (Edit
> Separately in
>      context menu), this editor window will stay on the same widget
> when selection
>      changes).
> 
> 
> Also THANKYOU to so many people who supported Glade, who filed bugs, who sent
> patches or gave some moral support, Thanks to Juan Pablo for fixing bugs when
> I couldnt be there, thanks to Pavel Kostyuchenko and Google for his summer of
> code project, thanks to Matthias Clasen and Johan Dahlin for reviewing
> my patches
> for GTK+, the GTK+ team in general for helping me and letting me fix menu
> constructors and do GtkActivatable which hopefully will make a good difference
> in Glade 3.6, thanks to all the awesome translators and all the new languages,
> thanks to the release-team for coordinating this stuff and being lenient with
> me at times... lets not forget Andre Klapper ! (what would any of us do without
> him ;-D) Im sure Im missing people, but thanks for your appreciation
> of the project
> over all !
> 
> Anyway, like I said I havent had time for much lately, so you might find some
> bugs or uncomfortabilities, please report them and I will do my best
> to find some
> time to polish it off in the next bugfix release.
> 
> Oh yeah... and PLEASE LOVE IT !!!!
> 
> Enjoy,
>     - the Glade team
> 
> 
> What is Glade ?
> ===============
> Glade is a RAD tool to enable quick & easy development of user
> interfaces
> for the Gtk+ toolkit and the GNOME desktop environment.
> The user interfaces designed in Glade are stored in XML format,
> enabling easy integration with external tools.
> In particular libglade can load the XML files and create the interfaces
> at runtime. The DTD for the XML files is included with libglade, and is
> also at http://glade.gnome.org/glade-2.0.dtd.
> 
> ===========
> Glade 3.6.0
> ===========
> 	- Fixed bugs 574260, 573513, 573453, 574706, 567809
> 	 (Juan Pablo Ugarte, Ryu Jinno, myself)
> 
> New and updated translations
> ============================
> 	- Kostas Papadimas (el)
> 	- Claude Paroz (fr)
> 	- Kenneth Nielsen (da)
> 	- Ani Peter (ml)
> 	- Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (gl)
> 	- Krishnababu K (te)
> 	- Gintautas Miliauskas (lt)
> 	- Duarte Loreto (pt)
> 	- Manoj Kumar Giri (or)
> 	- Petr Kovar (cs)
> 	- Milo Casagrande (it)
> 	- Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th)
> 	- Philip Withnall (en_GB)
> 	- Daniel Nylander (sv)
> 	- Nickolay V. Shmyrev (ru)
> 	- Ilkka Tuohela (fi)
> 	- Christian Kirbach, Hendrik Richter (de)
> 	- Baris Cicek (tr)
> 	- Philip Withnall (en_GB)
> 	- Raivis Dejus (lv)
> 	- Changwoo Ryu (ko)
> 	- Jorge Gonzalez (es)
> 	- Daniel Nylander (sv)
> 	- Kenneth Nielsen (da)
> 	- Gabor Kelemen (hu)
> 	- Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio (eu)
>  	- Clytie Siddall (vi)
> 	- Og Maciel, Jonh Wendell (pt_BR)
> 	- Claude Paroz (fr)
> 
> 
> Where can I get it ?
> ====================
> 
>  http://download.gnome.org/sources/glade3/3.6/
> 
> For more information consult our home page at http://glade.gnome.org/
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Has Glade 3.6.x gotten to the Gentoo platform?  I have updated my apps 
but I still have the Glade 3.4.5 version.

Also has the documentation moved?  My bookmarks to the API's don't seem 
to work anymore.

Thanks,

dave