Re: 2.26 will use GTK+ 2.16

["Diego Escalante Urrelo" <diegoe gnome org>]

On 12/22/08, Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org> wrote:
> Hello beloved hackers!
>
>  The GTK+ team decided for a short 2.16 cycle, so it can already be
>  used for GNOME 2.26; this is great news and something many developers
>  wanted, as there are already interesting features:
>
>   - new status icon api
>   - using threads for page rendering when printing
>   - the new invisible char handling
>

Also:
 - GtkEntry can show progress (think olpc's or safari's url bar)
 - GtkEntry can now show icons, think libsexy's widget

Both are already in but missing a tiny bit of polishment.

greetings