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The releasing of grabs while a button is pressed (e.g. after starting dnd, or dragging the window, or going to overview with a pressed button, etc...) was generalized here in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/1879. However we shouldn't break all grabs here. In the case of grabbing popups, compositors will still emit crossing events between client surfaces (e.g. popping up and selecting a menu item via press-drag-release), breaking all grabs here means inconsistent client state, that was https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/2746. That was fixed in mutter, by essentially making implicit grabs owner_events=FALSE, however that breaks the mentioned use pattern entirely. Mutter is changing this behavior back, so GTK should handle these crossing events. The grab that we are interested in breaking here is the implicit pointer one. Popups will be dismissed via other means if the compositor says their active grab needs breaking. This still leaves dnd/move/resize drags in one place, while not allowing #2746 to happen with popups.
GTK — The GTK toolkit
General information
GTK is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK is suitable for projects ranging from small one-off projects to complete application suites.
GTK is free software and part of the GNU Project. However, the licensing terms for GTK, the GNU LGPL, allow it to be used by all developers, including those developing proprietary software, without any license fees or royalties.
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- Gtk: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/gtk/gtk4/
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- Gsk: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/gtk/gsk4/
Nightly flatpaks of our demos can be installed from the GNOME Nightly repository:
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists gnome-nightly https://nightly.gnome.org/gnome-nightly.flatpakrepoflatpak install gnome-nightly org.gtk.Demo4flatpak install gnome-nightly org.gtk.WidgetFactory4flatpak install gnome-nightly org.gtk.IconBrowser4
Building and installing
In order to build GTK you will need:
You will also need various dependencies, based on the platform you are building for:
If you are building the X11 backend, you will also need:
- Xlib, and the following X extensions:
- xrandr
- xrender
- xi
- xext
- xfixes
- xcursor
- xdamage
- xcomposite
If you are building the Wayland backend, you will also need:
- Wayland-client
- Wayland-protocols
- Wayland-cursor
- Wayland-EGL
Once you have all the necessary dependencies, you can build GTK by using Meson:
$ meson _build .
$ cd _build
$ ninja
You can run the test suite using:
$ meson test
And, finally, you can install GTK using:
$ sudo ninja install
Complete information about installing GTK and related libraries can be found in the file:
docs/reference/gtk/html/gtk-building.html
Or online
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Bugs should be reported on the issues page.
In the bug report please include:
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And anything else you think is relevant.
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If the bug was a crash, the exact text that was printed out when the crash occurred.
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Further information such as stack traces may be useful, but is not necessary.
Contributing to GTK
Please, follow the contribution guide to know how to start contributing to GTK.
Release notes
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Please, see the COPYING file for further information.
GTK includes a small number of source files under the Apache license:
- A fork of the roaring bitmaps implementation in gtk/roaring
- An adaptation of timsort from python in gtk/timsort