Re: GTK+ 3.10 released

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Mon, 23 Sep 2013, Matthias Clasen wrote:

> GTK+ 3.10.0 is now available for download at:
>
> http://download.gnome.org/sources/gtk+/3.10/

Thanks!  Just a few observations on the 3.10.0 package.

* I'm used to GTK defaulting to the X11 backend on my system, which 
makes sense since it has everything to support X11 and nothing to 
support any other backend. But when I ./configure the new package it 
errors out on lack of broadway support. OK, so I explicitly 
--disable-broadway-backend. Then it errors out on no backend 
selected, and I have to explicitly --enable-x11-backend. Not a big 
deal, but is this really intended?

* The build halts with an error if gobject-introspection is version 
1.34.N. Maybe this should have a configure check? Updating to 1.38.0 
fixed to the problem; not sure about 1.36.

* When running my program after updating to GTK+ 3.10 I notice that 
all icons in menus have disappeared. I updated to 
gnome-themes-standard 3.10 at the same time so I'm not sure which 
update is responsible for that. Is showing icons in menus in GTK 
possible any more? (IMO well-chosen icons for common actions can 
help the user to home in on the item they want better than 
all-text.)

Allin Cottrell