GTK+ 3.0.0 Tool-Kit Officially Released!

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GTK+ 3.0.0 Tool-Kit Officially Released!

It's been a little more than a week since the final release of GTK2 was made available and at that time GTK+ 3.0 was nearing its official release. Today, after being in development for years, GTK+ 3.0 has been officially released...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=OTA5NA

[d2kx]

Good to have GTK for a worst-case scenario if Nokia was to announces it will kill off MeeGo (and therefore also Qt) tomorrow.

Ubuntu will make use of GTK3 with Ubuntu 10.10 in October.

[peppepz]

Good to have GTK for a worst-case scenario if Nokia was to announces it will kill off MeeGo (and therefore also Qt) tomorrow.

Qt is independent from MeeGo, and MeeGo is developed by Intel too.

[evolution]

I just have a question about this GTK+ (3.0) release:

Is it API/ABI compatible with GTK2 or not?
If it isn't, I think It'll take some time (like python3) to be adopted by a large amount of distros (currently, for instance, only a few apps use python3 instead of python2 and most distros still don't have python3 in their official repos).

About the project, I hope this release to be at least as successful as GTK2 was, but personally, I prefer Qt much more.

Cheers

[Micket]

Is it API/ABI compatible with GTK2 or not?
If it isn't, I think It'll take some time (like python3) to be adopted by a large amount of distros (currently, for instance, only a few apps use python3 instead of python2 and most distros still don't have python3 in their official repos).

It's a major version change, so no, it is not. It's meant to be installed alongside gtk2.
Upgrading, even having code compatible with both GTK2 and 3 should be possible.

While i also would choose qt for any new project, many existing GTK projects could still upgrade (eventually), so there is still a big gain however you look at it.

[tball]

Does GTK 3.0 support c++? If not, why not?
In my experience, c++ is way better for gui programming than plain c.

[nzjrs]

Does GTK 3.0 support c++? If not, why not?
In my experience, c++ is way better for gui programming than plain c.

Please try gtkmm

[liam]

Does GTK 3.0 support c++? If not, why not?
In my experience, c++ is way better for gui programming than plain c.

Look up Gobject introspection (gir). It has tons of language support.

[srg_13]

Does GTK 3.0 support c++? If not, why not?
In my experience, c++ is way better for gui programming than plain c.

Gtkmm is the C++ binding. It's a great API and is far easier to use than the C API.

[cl333r]

Gtkmm is the C++ binding. It's a great API and is far easier to use than the C API.

I totally agree, however what bothers me is that there might not be any gtkmm3 any time soon.. is there?