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Clutter at CES 2010
Submitted by Emmanuele Bassi, posted on 12 Jan 2010 - 03:16 - 0 comments
Clutter has been generating some buzz at this year's CES in Las Vegas.
LG demonstrated their Moorestown-based LG GW990 mobile phone which uses Clutter as part of Moblin:
(via Engadget)
Also, Else Ltd showcased their Else Intuition which uses Clutter as part of the Access Linux Platform v3.0:
(via Engadget)
Both projects leverage Clutter's hardware acceleration for creating cool, animated user interfaces, as well as its portability and versatility.
Clutter 1.1.4 - developers snapshot
Submitted by Emmanuele Bassi, posted on 12 Jan 2010 - 03:06 - 0 comments
hi everyone;
do you remember when I said that there would be monthly developers snapshots until the 1.2 release? well, it turns out that development, traveling and moving to a new house tends to disrupt release schedules. the best-laid plans of mice and men, and all that...
anyhow, here's to you a new developers snapshot of Clutter; I'll try to keep these coming for the whole month, until we reach API and feature freeze later in January, in time for GNOME 2.30 and the next Moblin cycle.
http://www.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter/1.1/ http://download.gnome.org/sources/clutter/1.1/
MD5 Checksums:
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Clutter is an open source software library for creating fast, visually rich, portable and animated graphical user interfaces. Clutter is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1.
Requirements
Clutter currently requires:
- GLib >= 2.16.0
- Cairo >= 1.6
- Pango >= 1.20
- OpenGL >= 1.2, OpenGL|ES 1.1 or OpenGL|ES 2.0
- GLX, SDL, WGL, Quartz or an EGL Implementation
Depending on the platform and the configuration options Clutter also depends on:
- GDK-Pixbuf >= 2.0
- JSON-GLib >= 0.8
Notes
- This is the second developers snapshot of the 1.1 cycle
- This version is API and ABI compatible with the current stable release of Clutter
- Installing the contents of this release will overwrite the files from the installation of the current stable release of Clutter
- Bugs should be reported here
What's new in Clutter 1.1.4
- Update the ClutterScript parser to be more resilient, and support constructor and ChildMeta properties. The parser also respects the order of the properties in the UI definitions when applying them, and will apply the properties of an Actor after building the scene graph.
- Simplified the implementation of LayoutManager sub-classes, and added support for animating a layout manager.
- Allow short-circuiting some layout operations by setting a specific flag on ClutterActor.
- Improve caching of the preferred size of a ClutterActor.
- Allow declaring "internal children" for a ClutterContainer implementation: the memory management of these actors will be deferred entirely to the Container.
- Let the ClutterStage honour the :opacity property and the alpha component of the stage color. This requires support in the Clutter backend used.
- Improve Windows and OSX backends.
- Simplify the feature detection code for OpenGL; this also reduced the required OpenGL version to 1.2.
- Improve the matrix stack handling code. The matrices can be debugged by using the COGL_DEBUG environment variable, assuming that Clutter was compiled with the right configure-time switch.
- Improve COGL API for draw buffers, and for offscreen buffer support.
- Add support for text direction to ClutterActor.
- Documentation, introspection and build fixes.
Many thanks to:
Robert Bragg Neil Roberts Damien Lespiau Joshua Lock Bastian Winkler Rob Bradford Samuel Degrande Christian Persch Colin Walters Johan Bilien Raymond Liu Tim Horton
Have fun with Clutter!