GTK+ 3.15.11 is now available for testing

Mar 16, 2015 00:36 GMT  ·  By

The powerful GTK+ GUI toolkit has been updated recently with over 20 fixes and updated translations. GTK+ 3.15.11 is mainly a bugfix release and fixes shadow problems in the KDE desktop environment, as well as several warnings from xReply test in the configure.in file, fixes Clang static analysis issues, and repairs the Kerberos authentication pop-up.

According to the raw changelog, GTK+ 3.15.11 fixes an issue with the FileFilter name not being set, allows compiling with the --disable-xkb argument by addressing the undefined references to the get_xkb(), makes sincos portable, makes the titlebar of Gedit draggable again, and makes sure that text can be highlighted in GtkInfoBar.

Developers who want to build GTK application for the GNOME desktop environment, should know that GTK+ 3.15.11 fixes HighContrast icons in the App Chooser and Print Dialog, repairs selected menu items compatibility with the HighContrast theme, add support for gtk_window_set_modal in Wayland.

Additionally, it adds padding support to the textview component in the CSS section of GtkInspector, makes the gdk_gl_context_set_required_version() function to handle version requests, addresses some bookmarks issues in Nautilus (Files), repairs the GtkPrintOperation dialog, makes the search suggestions to be displayed in the GNOME Weather and GNOME Clocks apps, fixes Tracker search issues in file chooser, and repairs some CSD windows issues.

Last but not least, the French, Swedish, Polish, Galician, Korean, Slovak, Kazakh, and Lithuanian language translations have been updated in GTK+ 3.15.11, which you can download right now via Softpedia. Keep in mind, though, that it is an unstable release and it must not be deployed on production machines.