GTK+ 4 Development Continues with Vulkan Implementation and More Deprecated APIs

A new development build of the upcoming GTK+ 4 GUI (Graphical User Interface) toolkit used to create those beautiful GTK apps everyone adores, arrived last week with a lot of new features and bug fixes.

GTK+ 3.89.2 comes just one month after the first development snapshot, versioned 3.89.1, and it looks like it comes with a new Vulkan implementation that was added in parallel to the OpenGL one, CSS border-spacing support for the GtkBox and GtkGrid widgets, as well as the gadgets, and a working gtk4-icon-browser.

Other than that, the gtk-demo component was updated to offer an example for using the PangoTabArray function with the GtkTextView widget, the GtkListBox and GtkFlowBox widgets were changed to no longer emit the "::selected-children-changed" signal during destruction, ad gtk-encode symbolic now supports icons that contain dots in their names.

The list of changes continues with the refactoring of the rendering in GSK (GTK Scene Kit) and GDK (GIMP Drawing Kit... (read more)

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